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Once again Israel had unleashed its awesome arsenal in defiance of the close ally that supplied most of its weapons The blow came just when U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib seemed on the verge of salvaging a diplomatic victory for the U.S. by negotiating a peaceful evacuation of the P.L.O. from Lebanon. As Israel's terrible swift sword sliced into West Beirut, in full video view of a war-weary world, the U.S. was reduced to muttering public protests...
...rooms in Livermore's Combat Simulation Laboratory. Sitting at $100,000 battle stations jammed with the latest computer hardware, they slide plastic "pucks" across electronic graphics tablets to command the full paraphernalia of modern war: tanks and personnel carriers, jets and helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz...
...nuke" indiscriminately. "If they were caught out of position, they would try to retrieve the battle with nuclear weapons," says Janus Director Donald Blumenthal, a retired Army colonel working at the California weapons-research laboratory. One officer who let his position deteriorate beyond recovery reached into his megaton arsenal, picked the largest weapon and dropped it where he guessed the Red Army had massed...
...failure of the intermediate-range (1,000-mile) Pershing II has politically important ramifications. The first 108 missiles are to be deployed in West Germany beginning 22 months earlier than originally planned, in late 1983. The rush is in order to counterbalance the growing Soviet arsenal of intermediate-range SS-20 missiles. If the missile has a serious problem-design refinements have increased the program's projected cost by 56% since last year-West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt could be embarrassed. Moreover, American negotiators now bargaining with the Soviets over such nuclear missiles might find their leverage weakened...
...official Washington these days. Hamilton's thesis is regarded by President Reagan as a dangerous illusion that should have been shattered by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow's role in bringing repression to Poland and the steady build-up of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. The Administration's approach has outraged Washington's European allies, who, like Hamilton, see trade as a lubricant that can ease international tensions...