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Solarz will hold committee hearings this week to force the Administration to take formal action against Islamabad. A six-year, $4 billion aid package for Pakistan is up for a vote in Congress this fall...
...moment, the U.S. and Pakistan are discussing which craft Islamabad should buy. Pakistan wants to buy three Boeing E-3A Sentries. The jet, which the U.S. deploys on the NATO front and in other key strategic areas, is a top- of-the-line technical marvel whose exact capabilities are classified. But Washington says it has no Sentries to spare, and has offered instead the much less sophisticated Grumman E-2C Hawkeye. Capable of tracking more than 600 targets at a range of 300 miles, the propeller-driven Hawkeye is slower and more vulnerable to attack than the Sentry...
...While Islamabad ponders Washington's counteroffer, questions have been raised about who will operate the planes' highly technical electronic gear. Buildings are being designed to house U.S. personnel at two Pakistani air bases, but in congressional hearings last month, Reagan Administration aides ruled out the participation of U.S. airmen or civilians...
...time bombs ripped through a Peshawar railway station. In addition, the deal has run into opposition from Senator John Glenn of Ohio, a Democrat who is an outspoken critic of Pakistan's nuclear program. Later this month Glenn plans to propose an end to all U.S. military aid until Islamabad demonstrates that it has ceased production of weapons-grade uranium...
...Pakistan's enemy in three wars since 1947. New Delhi has already protested Washington's plans to send AWACS to Pakistan, with some effect. One U.S. official says the Reagan Administration has decided to hand over the planes only if their use is limited to the Afghan border region. Islamabad is unlikely to go along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does not wish to risk a serious breach with the U.S., its main supplier of arms...