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American military advisers, TIME has learned, traveled secretly to Iran in the summer of 1979. They test-fired two Hawk antiaircraft missiles for the Iranian air force and offered to repair Iran's Hawk defensive system. The Carter Administration also authorized some major U.S. arms manufacturers to continue sales of military equipment to Iran covertly. This, in turn, encouraged private arms dealers to continue supplying Iran. All official cooperation with Iran ended when the embassy in Tehran was seized. Carter impounded $300 million worth of spare parts that the Shah had paid for, and ordered a complete boycott...
Another major supplier of munitions to Iran is South Korea. Computer printouts from the U.S. Office of Munitions Control show that in a recent twelve-month period Korean Air Lines and two government-controlled South Korean companies made 60 separate purchases of Hawk missiles and related parts. On the basis of their intelligence sources, U.S. Customs officials contend that these missiles were destined for Iran. Defectors from the Iranian air force confirm that South Korea has provided these parts as well as spares for the Iranian F-4s. One of them told TIME, in addition, that Agusta, an Italian company...
...Slade Gorton told the President that the voters in his home state of Washington wanted cuts in the defense budget. Reagan shot back: "When are we going to have enough guts to do what is right instead of what is popular?" But even John Tower of Texas, a staunch hawk, came away insisting that the President's military budget was doomed...
...repeatedly criticized the Administration as acquiescent on foreign policy, particularly for its pledge to withdraw military support from Taiwan and its lifting of sanctions against construction of a natural gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to supply Western Europe. Says he: "I am a hard-liner and a hawk. When Reagan caves in, I berate...
...parable that hit the airwaves three months before the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, surely did so. Like the surgeons whose no-sweat heroism it celebrated, the series began by operating on the wounded American body politic with skill and daring good humor. For half an hour each week, hawk and dove could sit together in front of the TV set and agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been unfairly assigned; now they were doing their best to do good and get out. As the Viet Nam War staggered to a close...