Word: attacked
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TIME notched up a considerable plus mark with the article "Attack on the Navy" [May 8]. There were no distortions of facts or figures but, as a friendly foreigner, I suggest certain clarifications are needed...
...term plan to improve the alliance's defenses. Pentagon planners estimate that the program will cost between $60 billion and $80 billion, with the U.S. paying a bit more than half. Carter also reaffirmed a longstanding policy to defend Europe with atomic weapons, if necessary. Proclaimed the President: "An attack on Europe would have the full consequences of an attack on the United States. Let there be no misunderstanding, the United States is prepared to use all the forces necessary for the defense of the NATO area...
...riddle of leadership. Jimmy Carter's 17 months of training have taught him to appreciate the unnerving complexities of managing power. But his lack of experience still seriously fetters him. Participants in his rising attack on the Soviet and Cuban adventurism in Africa describe a man in a delicate state of doubt, where both courage and hesitation (with a bow for the line to old Political Novelist Allen Drury) show themselves...
...Zaïre, that would mean disaster. The copper and cobalt mines of Shaba are responsible for two-thirds of the nation's foreign exchange earnings, and Zaïre needs them to survive. Although the region was relatively calm last week, no one precluded the possibility of another rebel attack from across the border, or of a general uprising by a population suffering from severe poverty and the oppression of its country's own plundering army...
...demanding a special payment of $1,000 a month in "danger money," the right to bear private arms, guarantees of evacuation "on demand" and, more significantly, a foreign military garrison. The expatriates have no confidence in the ability of the Zaïrian army to ward off another rebel attack and no faith in the proposed pan-African force to ward off the marauding Zaïrian army...