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...Secretary also advocated a policy of "linkage" involving all East-West relations, urged common policy outside the NATO area (for example, in the Persian Gulf), and emphasized the Administration's two selling points with the Third World: ties with the Soviets bring too close an embrace, alliance with the West can produce economic improvement...
...weekend closed with a 45-minute speech by Brzezinksi, who told the assembled guests of Knoll. "If the Middle Eastern region becomes destablized or controlled by an adversary the scales of history will be tipped." He explained that American currently has a "no-fallback position" on the Persian Gulf, adding. "We are faced with another power over which we do not have strategic superiority--I will not say that we are inferior, but the relationship of power is ambiguous and that is a novel situation...
...Congressmen also fret that Saudi Arabia has given no discernible quid pro quo for the AWACS sale: it has not pledged support for the Camp David-Middle East peace process, nor ceased its support for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Finally, critics pose this question: If aerial surveillance of the Persian Gulf region is militarily necessary, why could it not be accomplished by continuing to have U.S.-owned AWACS planes fly out of Saudi bases, rather than replacing them with Saudi-owned AWACS that terrify Israel? The Administration has no convincing answer...
...because of their potential threat to Israel. But the Saudis now say they need the fuel tanks along with five Airborne Warning and Command System (AWACS) aircraft, claiming that their security needs have changed since then. The Soviets are in Afganistan, and Iran, once America's arsenal in the Persian Gulf, is now unfriendly to both the United States and Saudi Arabia...
...which are capable of tracking aircraft up to 250 miles away, would be used to spy on their own air force. Said Eban: "The WACs would lay Israel naked to Arab eyes in the sky." Haig argued that arming Saudi Arabia was necessary to ensure overall security in the Persian Gulf and that Riyadh would be required to agree not to use the planes against Israel. Nevertheless, supporters of Israel will probbly try to block the sale when it comes up for a vote in Congress later this month...