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...same time an even stronger external pressure for white minority rule is likely. Angola and Mozambique are seen by the Republic of South Africa and Rhodesia as buffer states against a potential black African liberationist onslaught. These vast expanses of land--each well larger than Texas--thoroughly insulate South Africa from contact with any black nationalist government, and make infiltration and supply of potential antiapartheid guerrillas nearly impossible. This is one of the main reasons South Africa has entirely escaped any militant insurgency...
...early in April. Both Israel and Syria have agreed to attend disengagement talks in Washington; at Syrian insistence, each will meet separately with U.S. officials. Apart from a peremptory Syrian rejection of Israel's first disengagement proposals (which involved P.O.W. exchanges, limited Israeli withdrawal and a possible U.N. buffer zone between the two armies), nothing much has happened to spur the talks forward...
...perhaps even bigger ones. Declares Columbia Professor Emile Benoit, an expert on the economics of defense: "We don't know how much we will spend, and we may be even less secure in the end." Indeed, the 1975 budget request includes about $10 million for a Command Data Buffer System that would allow the U.S. to switch a missile to a new target in 20 minutes. The process, which requires programming each missile's computers, now takes up to 36 hours...
...what diplomats refer to as linkage. Israel was prepared to pull back 20 miles from the Suez Canal to positions at Sinai's Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, Jerusalem expected Egypt to thin out its armor and artillery in Sinai, reopen the Suez Canal and, as a buffer, repopulate its ports of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel to carry out a unilateral withdrawal beyond...
Since the end of the revolution in 1949, China has extended its authority to important segments of what it has called lost territory. It has also maintained North Korea as a security buffer. The lost territories, rich in resources for industrialization, are naturally of great importance to China's big modernization drive. But territory itself has always been important to Chinese self-respect and world prestige. From an economic or historical perspective, then, it is not surprising that the victors of the Chinese revolution have been so intent on returning lost territories to their homeland. And if nothing else, Sinkiang...