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...would appeal to the United Nations Security Council and the Arab League. Extreme caution dominates the thinking of even the most powerful of the gulf nations, Saudi Arabia. Before the Iranian attackers hit the Saudi tanker off Ras Tanura last week, a U.S.-operated AWACS radar plane detected F-4s in the region and notified the Saudi air force. The Saudis scrambled their superior F-15 jet fighters in good time, but failed to engage the Iranian planes. The Saudis have at least 130 fighter aircraft, far more than the Iranians have in operating condition, but they are not eager...
...separate purchases of Hawk missiles and related parts. On the basis of their intelligence sources, U.S. Customs officials contend that these missiles were destined for Iran. Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company operating under agreements with the State Department and Fort Worth-based Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., supplied Iran with Chinook choppers in violation of U.S. licensing rules. Says a Pentagon official: "A lot of countries are buying far more supplies...
...leads have excellent voices, especially Jayne S. West as patience, who earlier this week played Jenny in the 4S's modern musical comedy Company. West's Patience is delightfully innocent and her clear strong soprano never wavers. "West has a regal stage presence and sustains the misguided Patience strongly throughout the show...
Enter the SS-20. It was first deployed early in 1977. It was a replacement for the SS-4s and SS-5s, with which the Soviets had been menacing Europe for decades. The SS-20 was therefore not a new threat in that its targets more or less matched those of the old SS-4s and SS-5s that were destined for retirement. But the SS-20 is an immensely more capable weapon. It is mobile, highly accurate and dauntingly destructive, with three independently targetable warheads. (SS-20 is its NATO designation. The Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces innocently dubbed...
...proposal was deceptive and vague. The SS-4s and SS-5s were overdue for the scrap heap anyway. The Soviets may have deployed excess SS-20s precisely so that they could negotiate away some of the surplus to prove their reasonableness. Moreover, Andropov left open the possibility of merely moving the excess SS-20s so that they were east of the Urals; from there the missiles could be put on trains and brought back within range of Europe...