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...launchers, radio equipment, uniforms and, of course, boots. At the same time, eight-to twelve-member U.S. Army Special Forces teams have been conducting training courses for soldiers and policemen on five of the sweet-smelling Spice Islands. Those developments are reassuring to some islanders, who feel that a build-up is long overdue and that by strengthening their defense forces they can resist leftist insurgencies. Other residents, however, fear that larger local armies will bring more war than peace to the region, turn their islands into U.S. satellites and thrust them into the middle of superpower conflicts. Says Dominica...
Weinberger is the easiest to pick at, because, by most accounts, he is one of the worst defense secretaries ever. He is not stupid, nor have his policy proposals, in their own may, been insignificant. By pressuring unremmittingly for a huge arms build-up, he has redefined the debate on defense spending. The question is no longer do we have increases of a few percent in the budget; it is do we increase it by more than 10 percent...
...nuclear end, Reagan has increased the likelihood of that end. He has done his atmost to alienate us from not only the Soviet leadership, but its citizens as well. He has spent three years stalling the arms control talks. And he has launched us on a massive nuclear build-up, including research and development of nuclear arsenals in space...
...contention that Israel's isolation is her own fault. He seems to feel that Israel, having been attacked by the combined weight of the entire Arab world three times during her short existence, and having been plagued by the hateful PLO, should now cease her defensive arms build-up, and try to understand and negotiate with a group of countries which have yet to even recognize her existence. If she does not then she is, according to Mr. Kurzman, obstinate (the term most favored by the press to describe Israel is "intransigent," which somehow never gets applied to the Arabs...
...DEFENDERS of Israel justify the country's ties with South Africa, its massive arms build-up, the mistreatment of its Arab citizens and the maltreatment of Sephardic Jews? How can a country created for moral reasons continue to act immorally...