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TIME, in describing the Administration's Middle East arms package as coupling "15 ultrasophisticated F-15 fighter-bombers to Israel with the delivery of four times that number of F-15s to Saudi Arabia," failed to mention that the U.S. has already sold Israel 25 F-15 aircraft beyond the 15 in the package and that the current proposal also includes 75 F-16 advanced fighters for Israel...
...some serious reservations about the size and nature of the Israeli response to the terrorist attack. For his part, Begin will defend the venture in Lebanon as a vital security measure, and he will make a strong pitch to Carter to change his mind and refrain from selling F-15s to Saudi Arabia and F-5Es to Egypt. On that sensitive issue, Begin has been getting powerful (and perhaps decisive) support from Israel's vocal backers...
...light of the increased fuel needs expected in the 1980s. But such an expansion would require an expenditure of up to $6 billion, and the Saudis are reluctant to make it unless they receive from the U.S. a demonstration of good faith?namely, the sale of the F-15s. If the U.S. withholds the planes, the Saudis are not likely to expand their production capacity, and the U.S. and its allies could run into critical energy shortages by the mid-1980s...
Most worrisome of all for U.S. Jews was Carter's decision last month to wrap together the sale of 15 ultrasophisticated F-15 fighter-bombers to Israel with the delivery of four times that number of F-15s to Saudi Arabia, and 50 of the less advanced but also deadly F-5E Tiger II jets to Egypt. By bundling them in a single export package. Carter has made it exceedingly difficult for Congress to block the Arab sales without preventing the Israeli delivery as well. This has infuriated many Jews, who see the arrangement as gravely jeopardizing Israeli security...
...rifles. Don Powers, superintendent at Crooks' mine, calmly patted his own .357 Magnum revolver and asserted his view: "They got the right to strike if they want, but we got just as much right to work." At the nearby S&S Coal Co., two guards armed with AR-15s were assisted by a German shepherd and a Doberman. Said one S&S miner: "I'm eating and they are not. If they don't want to work they don't have to, but they better leave me alone. That's what those guns...