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The new Administration, in any case, had no objection. As early as Feb. 3, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was proclaiming publicly that a new arms deal with the Saudis was in the works. He made no mention of AWACS, but Air Force General David C. Jones, Chairman of the...
Incredibly, no real effort was made then by the Administration even to measure the potential depth of those objections. When Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir visited Washington in late February, he was told by Haig that some sort of aerial reconnaissance equipment might be sold to the Saudis; Israelis now...
- Northern Indiana Public Service Co. in August permanently scrapped plans for its big Bailly plant. The esti-'"mated cost of the facility had multiplied almost ten times, from $ 187 million when first proposed in 1970 to $1.8 billion, but the big objection was the site. The installation is 30...
Nations have in this century attempted to foster a "national character." Nazi Germany and Maoist China are two examples. But the price people have paid for such "public spiritedness" has always been authoritarianism. Will acknowledged that danger but argued that just because some countries had taken the route of authoritarianism...
The most common objection is to the tactics of the Irish, particularly the Irish Republican Army. They blow things up, and sometimes innocent people are wasted. But that's the way with wars; almost never are they pleasant. To argue that the accidental killing of civilians makes an army or...