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Money is no problem; this year the Saudis have allocated $20.7 billion for defense. But they suffer from a serious military manpower shortage. To help deal with it, they have entered into military cooperation with the populous, pro-Western Islamic country of Pakistan. The Pakistani government is training Saudi officers and has furnished an estimated 1,000 advisers to the Saudis...
...There was bleeding, but we support the cuts." Strategically important commitments to Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan Administration's emphasis on military assistance to threatened pro-Western regimes, if done at the expense of aid to neutral developing nations, could eventually hurt the U.S. economically. Warns Douglas J. Bennet Jr., outgoing administrator of the Agency for International Development: "The longer we delay the development of Third World countries, the smaller the markets will...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...establish bases either in Israel or in pro-Western Arab states, assuming one were willing to accept an American military presence. A base in Israel would antagonize moderate Arabs; a base in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, say, might...
...opportunity, should have to reckon with the likelihood that the MiGs they have supplied to some would-be invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments and vital interests would inject some uncertainty-and possibly some additional caution-into Soviet calculations...