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...have normal relationships with Iran." One possible move: the Treasury Department could rescind its freeze on the estimated $6 billion of Iranian assets in the U.S. or on deposit with American banks. Banisadr would like the U.S. to resume shipments of spare parts for Iran's sizable arsenal of U.S.-built sophisticated weaponry...
Security, understandably, remained a serious concern. The Village and the surrounding areas of competition bristled with small arms-not the ubiquitous submachine guns manned by guards that were so startling at Innsbruck four years ago (a legacy of the massacre of Israelis in Munich in 1972) but an immense arsenal of handguns. Even the security men working for the state's environmental-conservation department office carried pistols...
...President Brezhnev on the cheek. We cannot afford a foreign policy based on the pangs of unrequited love." Kennedy cautioned against taking action in the Persian Gulf without the support of our allies. He warned against haste in adding new nuclear weaponry like the MX missile to the U.S. arsenal. He opposed registration for a peacetime draft. He criticized Carter for allowing the Shah of Iran into the U.S., and he called for a U.N. commission tc investigate Iranian grievances once the hostages are returned...
British military analysts believe that Western aid to Pakistan should be limited to defensive equipment. The Islamabad government covets some of the most sophisticated weapons in the American arsenal, including F-15 and A-7 fighters, but it is not likely to get them. That kind of equipment would be a direct provocation to India, which might then feel obliged to seek Moscow's help in modernizing its armory. British experts also feel that the Western allies should not become involved in smuggling arms to the Afghan rebels. A far safer course would be to leave that task either...
...trying to surpass Soviet tank technology with the Chrysler-built XM1, which has had numerous problems with its gas-turbine engine. Only 110 of the 54-ton XMls are expected to be produced this year. Meanwhile, the U.S.S.R. currently has between 45,000 and 50,000 tanks in its arsenal, about five times as many as the U.S., and Soviet production is outdistancing American by about...