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...Soviet missiles are already in place, while the ones proposed for NATO are still in the testing stage. Second, there is a considerable disparity in the range and potency of the weapons involved. The new U.S. missiles carry only one warhead, as do the SS-4s and SS-5s. But the SS-20s are equipped to carry three warheads. Thus Reagan's proposal really calls for a trade-off of 572 American nuclear warheads for more than 1,000 Soviet ones. In his speech, Reagan claimed that the Soviets had a 6-to-1 nuclear advantage over...
...face this panoply of forces, Iran threw in units and equipment diminished by revolutionary confusion and the decimation of the military's top echelons, but still formidable in regional terms. Its air force included 445 combat planes, among them not only 188 Phantom F-4s and 166 F-5s but also 77 advanced F-14 interceptors. The principal problems with the planes as well as with the Iranian navy and ground forces: lack of maintenance and spare parts. According to Western analysts, only eight of the F-14s were airworthy and one-third of the army...
...elite new Saharan task force, commanded by King Hassan's intelligence chief, Brigadier Achmed Dlimi. This "Uhud Force," named after a battle famous in Arab history, has been given the best of Rabat's military machine: escorting helicopter gunships, air cover from U.S.-made F-5s and advanced French Mirages flying out of Saharan air bases at Laayoun and Dakhia. Young Moroccan officers compete for assignment to Dlimi's force, and more than 60% of the soldiers are native Saharans who know the desert terrain as well as the Polisarios...
...outcome of a Middle East settlement. TIME'S Cairo bureau chief Dean Brelis learned last week that Saudi Arabia, through a third party, recently deposited $500 million in a Denver bank. It was a sum that the Saudis had promised Sadat for the purchase of 50 F-5s and had withheld after Camp David. Although F-5s are no longer on Sadat's shopping list, the money is presumably there for him to buy the F-4 Phantoms he has decided on instead...
...kept Israel supplied with oil at that time. Once he secretly sent a tanker out to refuel an American carrier task force running low on oil in the Indian Ocean. In the closing days of the Viet Nam War, at U.S. request, he instantly dispatched a squadron of F-5s to Saigon. His planes and ships have patrolled the Strait of Hormuz for years, watching over the tankers headed west...