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...Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions on earth-the Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf...
...capacity to conduct a successful rescue mission-as pictures of the burning helicopters and charred bodies at Desert One last April so shatteringly illustrated. Rhetoric about military preparedness has tended to accentuate the problems. By proclaiming the Carter Doctrine, which committed the U.S. to meet Soviet aggression in the Persian Gulf area with force if necessary, the former President unwittingly raised the question of whether...
...those services draw. There is a desperate need for a new commitment by Government and the private sec tor alike to foreign-language and area-studies programs in high schools and colleges. However far removed this is sue may seem from the crisis of the mo ment in the Persian Gulf or Eastern Europe, the ability of the U.S. to deal with those regions ten or 20 years from now will depend hi part on the vigor of Arabic and Slavic studies around the country. A presidential commission correctly concluded hi 1979 that "American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing...
...more than ever, the U.S. needs the help of its allies in the complicated task of reinforcing Western security. It needs the British and the West Germans to shoulder more of the defense of Europe, so that the U.S. can concentrate on the Persian Gulf and other far-flung trouble spots. It needs French help in combatting the Libyans and other international muggers in sub-Saharan Africa. It needs the Japanese to assist in shoring up the security of the Pacific. These alliances are already strained, and there is plenty of blame to go around. American leadership has been erratic...
...vulnerability that might arise. But there now are critical shortages of all the more commonplace weapons that are essential to the kind of conflict that is most likely to occur: some sudden clash with the Soviets or their proxies on the borders of Central Europe, in the Persian Gulf or in the Middle East...