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...palpable sign of the quid pro quo exacted by the Soviets for its Black Sea fleet can be seen on any map of the Middle East. Cruisers bristling with missiles and advanced communications equipment put in regularly at Alexandria; Latakia, Syria; Berbera and Mogadishu, Somalia; and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean. Though Moscow and Tripoli deny it, Middle East watchers expect the Soviets to soon expand to some prime Libyan military bases in exchange for the weapons deal just concluded...
...supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate was being discussed...
...turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week Rabin had emphasized that Israel is prepared to carry out the disengagement agreements and expects the Arabs to do the same. But he also warned: "If they force...
...Arab nations. "We are a nation of ample natural resources," says Mohammed Imadi, the American-educated Economy Minister. "We have the land, oil, phosphates, iron ore, the right geographical location and a hardworking people." A magnificent sweep of Mediterranean coast is waiting to be developed; at the moment, Latakia is the only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless...
...insists on participating in any new peace discussions. Syria's President Hafez Assad had returned from a visit to Moscow in an optimistic mood; the Russians apparently promised him a bountiful supply of arms. TIME Correspondent William Stewart reported from Syria that Soviet ships were already unloading at Latakia, and tank carriers were hauling new T-62s south toward the front through peaceful fields of ripening wheat. Israeli military leaders believe that their U.S. weapons are superior to Soviet equipment, but if America decides to arm the Arabs too, they argue, Jerusalem's leverage will be lost...