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...instead of being antagonistic, "there wouldn't have been any Hitler." The Japanese, he declared, were "provoked to a certain extent by people, by interests in this country that helped to bring about Pearl Harbor." Without the war against the Axis powers, there would be today a "good buffer in the East against the Soviet and Chinese expansion plans...
...repeatedly excoriated other nations for similar interventions, explained the annexation by simply observing that the people of Sikkim want it that way. Some observers argue, however, that New Delhi simply wanted to tighten its grip on an area it feels crucial to its defense. Sikkim is a buffer between India and Chinese-controlled Tibet...
...killed. A major raid on fedayeen hideouts in southern Lebanon could lead to larger trouble, especially now that the P.L.O. and the Syrians have agreed to form a unified military command. Many experts worry about what might happen if the two U.N. forces were pulled out of the Sinai buffer zone or from the Golan Heights. "If that happens," a Western military observer in Beirut predicted last week, "there will be a bump - and I don't see how it could be localized. There's too much hardware around on both sides and too much emotion. Events will...
...attack if they become frustrated by the failures of diplomacy to get Israel to relinquish territory occupied in 1967 and grant some of the Palestinian demands. The most critical time will be late spring, when the weather is right for military operations, and the mandates expire for the U.N. buffer forces now stationed in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights. Short of war, both the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization are expected to continue their cross-border terrorist and commando raids...
...Lost Buffer. This sequence of events would have seemed unthinkable as recently as nine or ten months ago. Smith's concession-and the whole process of rapprochement that is underway in southern Africa-stems directly from the coup d'état in Lisbon last April and the subsequent decision by the new Portuguese government to grant independence to Mozambique next year and to Angola not long thereafter. Faced with the loss of the Portuguese colonies as buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black...