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...more than they now have?62 missile-launching submarines and 950 SLBMS. The agreement set no restrictions on the number of warheads that could be placed on each rocket. Nor did it limit bombers, short-and medium-range missiles and tactical nuclear weapons that can be used on the battlefield...
Jakarta, the sprawling capital of Indonesia, looked at times like a battlefield last week. Fires burned all night as angry mobs attacked stores, businesses, hotels and nightclubs, smashing and gutting hundreds of automobiles as they surged through the stricken city. It was the worst rioting that Jakarta had seen since the anti-Communist disturbances of 1967. The occasion for the violence this time, ironically enough, was neither the threat of externally supported subversion nor the advent of civil war; rather, it was the good-will visit of a friendly foreign leader, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka...
...aims at securing for the Jewish people the rights possessed by other nations...Zionism was not born in the Jewish ghettoes of Europe, but on the battlefield against imperialism in ancient Israel. It is not an out-moded nationalistic revival but an unparalleled epic of centuries of resistance to force and bondage...
Israelis are confused by the setbacks that their armed forces suffered in the early days of the war, and depressed by the loss of at least 1,854 lives on the battlefield. Premier Golda Meir admitted last week that in the first days of the Yom Kippur War, even she feared that Israel would be defeated and annihilated. Attempting to still the cries of critics who charge that her government was unprepared for the war, she appointed a nonpartisan five-man commission, headed by Supreme Court President Shimon Agranat, to investigate the army's errors...
...guns on the battlefields had barely been silenced by the cease-fire when new fighting erupted-this time not between Arabs and Jews but among Israel's military leaders. The aura of Israeli invincibility was shattered by the early successes of the Egyptian and Syrian surprise attacks. Ever since, Israel's generals have been blaming each other not only for their army's lack of preparedness but also for tactical and strategic errors on the battlefield. Because many of Israel's military leaders are also important political figures, the war among the generals is one that...