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...impasse and with Egypt's President Anwar Sadat making threatening noises, "1972 will be a decisive year." Last week he declared: "I won't give my hand to cutting 100 or 200 tanks from our forces." His aides meanwhile put out stories that Israel would have to curtail purchases of bombs and shells and construction of forts if the defense budget were cut too sharply. Bar-Lev was no help to Dayan. He allowed that, if the cease-fire continued, reserve duty could be reduced, resulting in considerable savings...
...curtail terrorism, the Israelis imposed curfews, increased military patrols and searches of Arab population. Currently the Israelis are trying to thin out the population of the crowded camps; in the Jabalia camp, where this year alone some 40 Arabs have been murdered, presumably by Palestinian guerrillas, 1,500 people have been moved to other quarters. In addition, a 9-ft-high fence topped with barbed wire is being built on the 25-mile eastern perimeter of the Strip...
...such figures do not explain the rise of high-level profiteering. Under Diem, corruption was relatively restrained and furtive. Today it permeates the hierarchy, in large part because President Nguyen Van Thieu has made no convincing moves to curtail it. His supporters point out that he is restrained from effective action by the fact that his political base includes a number of high-ranking officers who are deeply involved in profiteering. With a presidential election coming up in November, they say, he is in no position to start swinging a political ax at influential backers. His opponents, on the other...
...FACT, Kissinger's use of the NSSM series to tie up Washington's civil service was a blunt, cynical attempt to alter the effectiveness of the National Security Council set-up. The options system had been designed to curtail the influence of the bureaucracy, not to remove it; but when the dust had cleared, the Cabinet departments had been rendered virtually ineffective in the choosing of policy. By foreclosing one source of ideas, Kissinger had eliminated the options that would derive from it. The result was that his own office had been measurably strengthened...
...intensity last week. The Senate began a lengthy debate on whether to give Nixon a two-year extension of the draft; many argued strongly against it. Senator John Stennis, conservative chairman of the Armed Services Committee and a loyal supporter of Administration military policies, introduced a resolution that would curtail presidential power to make future wars. After years of objecting to the heavy U.S. troop commitment in Europe, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took decisive action: he introduced an amendment to the draft bill that would compel the Administration to reduce American forces in NATO by one-half...