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...Khomeini is a genuine revolutionary, and he would like to export his revolution. He is also a man who personalizes his quarrels?he 'brought down the Shah,' he 'brought down Jimmy Carter,' and he wants to bring down Saddam Hussein. If he could bring into power an Islamic regime in Iraq, so much the better...
Syria's MiG-21s, MiG-23s and MiG-25s, although relatively stripped-down export models, do have ECM gadgets, early-warning systems and air-to-air missiles. But their electronics are not as precise and powerful as the U.S.-Israeli counterparts. Israel also had available an even more powerful electronic back-up system: four U.S.-built E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes, each able to track 250 enemy aircraft up to 300 miles away. In addition, Israel's pilots are among the best in the world. No fighter pilots have more intensive training-in ground practice with computerized simulators...
...Europeans indicated a willingness to raise interest rates on government-subsidized loans and export sales to the Soviet Union and some of its allies. If "guidelines" suggested by the 25-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are adopted, the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and East Germany would pay 12¼% to 12½%, depending on the length of the credits, vs. 10½% to 11% currently. That was a very long way from satisfying the U.S., which had campaigned for restrictions on the amount as well as the cost of credit extended to the Soviet bloc. As late as Saturday evening...
...fiscal conservatism to steady the Dominican Republic's badly faltering economy. Like his predecessor, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, he faces an economy burdened with sharply higher oil costs (from $60 million in 1977 to an estimated $600 million this year) and depressed prices for such export commodities as sugar, gold, coffee and ferronickel. Almost half of the Dominican work force is either unemployed or underemployed...
Apple's new competitors have already captured more than half of the firm's East Asian market, and they are beginning to export their computers to South Africa and South America. One Taiwanese company is reportedly producing 3,000 imitation Apples a month. Apple's disgruntled Asian dealers have warned executives at the company's Cupertino, Calif., headquarters that the U.S. may be the next stop for the bogus computers...