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According to the Saudis, the essential Israeli concern is that, with AWACS surveying their aircraft and naval movements, they could not again pull off a surprise attack on Arab states, such as the aerial assault that won the Six-Day War of 1967. Israeli officials insist that their objections go much deeper. One or two Saudi AWACS planes hovering over Saudi territory, they assert, could keep all of Israel under surveillance: though AWACS cannot pick out ground targets, the planes could monitor all Israeli aircraft movements and even aerial training exercises. Pentagon planners say AWACS planes could not coordinate...
Many Congressmen also fret that Saudi Arabia has given no discernible quid pro quo for the AWACS sale: it has not pledged support for the Camp David-Middle East peace process, nor ceased its support for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Finally, critics pose this question: If aerial surveillance of the Persian Gulf region is militarily necessary, why could it not be accomplished by continuing to have U.S.-owned AWACS planes fly out of Saudi bases, rather than replacing them with Saudi-owned AWACS that terrify Israel? The Administration has no convincing answer...
...naval vessels (though not trucks or tanks) within 250 miles. A Sentry can stay aloft, at 30,000 ft., for eleven hours-and twice as long with mid-air refueling. As an all-seeing airborne base from which fighter and bomber strikes can be orchestrated, the AWACS has revolutionized aerial combat...
...bursts every decade or two. The film jumps back and forth among images of demolition and urban renewal: a billboard on a lone, dilapidated building proclaims. "Atlantic City, you're back on the map--again," while in a spectacular shot before the credits director Louis Malle shows us an aerial view of a massive stucco hotel collapsing into a heap of dust and rubble. Malle's Atlantic City is a patchwork of the old corruption and the new, numbers-runners and cocaine dealers, rickety frame houses and opulent casinos, aging beauty queens and female croupiers-in-training. There's always...
Moscow's tough talk was backed up by extensive Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland. The war games, originally scheduled to end last week, were prolonged indefinitely. Lengthy nightly television reports gave Poles a chilling view of amphibious landings, mock tank battles and simulated aerial assaults. Warsaw Pact maneuvers had preceded the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; the message was not lost on the Poles...