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What happened? It is easy enough to call a roll of words and actions that have darkened the outlook. On the U.S. side, the Reagan Administration has stepped up a campaign of military pressure on Soviet clients, blasting Soviet- installed missile sites in Libya, lobbying for resumed military aid to the contras in Nicaragua, and now supplying missiles to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola and rebels battling the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Then there have been symbolic actions that infuriated Moscow: a naval mission skirted U.S.S.R. waters to eavesdrop on Soviet communications on the Black Sea coast...
...says one national-security adviser, wants another summit, but with Soviet rather than American concessions. "We would like them to engage in a fundamental reassessment of their policy on regional issues," he says. "Until now the Soviets have not been seriously challenged in their regional initiatives--Afghanistan, Angola, Libya, Nicaragua--and they may have overextended themselves. Like every bureaucracy, the tendency has been for them to muddle through. Now we want them to learn what the costs are of all this adventure...
...than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
Early action reports from the Gulf of Sidra claimed that half a dozen of Libya's Soviet-made SA-5 missiles had fallen harmlessly into the sea, while the Navy's harm missiles had knocked out a radar station on land. Yet the Libyans were able to replace their radar within a few hours, and there remained some uncertainty whether all four harm (cost: $283,000 each) had actually struck home...
...elections are being closely monitored in Washington and throughout the Arab world. Sudan strategically abuts several Arab and African countries, including Egypt, Libya, Chad and Marxist-ruled Ethiopia. It also lies just across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has considered the country an ideal staging area for its forces in the event of a military threat to the gulf region. Even when Arab nations shunned the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for entering peace negotiations with Israel, Nimeiri was staunchly pro- Western and firmly allied with Egypt. The U.S. has attempted to ensure Khartoum's loyalty...