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...White House aides and State Department officials last week. The Administration might quarrel with portions of his description, but in spirit it was accurate enough. Seeking to balance conflicting pressure from Israelis, Arabs and European allies in the wake of winning Senate approval for the sale of AWACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, the Administration found itself at odds with nearly everybody. Luck most certainly will be needed to avoid provoking even more anger, and the President and his aides did not have much luck last week...
...antiaircraft missiles from the Soviets. Altogether, the week's news reinforced an impression that the Administration is improvising day to day in Middle East diplomacy rather than following a careful strategy. Said one American lobbyist for Israel, alluding to U.S. efforts to build a radar-eluding airplane: "Reagan's Middle East policy is like the Stealth-you can't see it or hear it, but it sure bombs...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...
...once the chips were on the table, the consequences of defeat, in the White House's view, were all too plain. If Congress turned down the Administration's plan to sell five sophisticated AWACS radar planes and other air-combat gear to Saudi Arabia, Ronald Reagan's ability to conduct any effective foreign policy at all would be called into serious question. If he could not deliver on this promise, how could foreign leaders trust any other commitment he might make? In European as well as Middle Eastern capitals, U.S. allies awaited the vote as a test of Reagan...
...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 Joint Chiefs of Staff, shortly convinced him that the radar planes should be included. According to some Administration insiders, Jones' clinching argument was economic: a sack of cash from the Saudis for the AWACS would hold down the cost of producing the radar planes for the U.S. Air Force...