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...portable guided missiles, which could place the world at the mercy of terrorists. The Germans have said that they will refuse to supply areas of tension. The Soviet Union has refused to rearm Iraq directly while it is at war with Iran. Moscow's reluctance to supply weapons to a region in conflict should be encouraged and nurtured...
...those forces are not available. The NATO members have only a limited ability to rearm, resupply or even communicate with one another. Says U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Robert Komer: "We still plan, configure, size, train and equip our forces nationally, as if each of us were going to fight the common enemy alone. This is a recipe for disaster." The Carter Administration has successfully pressed its allies to take some steps toward integrating NATO's forces. The President and Brown also won agreement from each NATO member to increase its annual defense spending by 3% in real terms...
...Several scenarios, all of them denied by Carter Administration sources, were suggested. One was that there would be an Iraq-Iran armistice at the end of October, after which the hostages would be released as part of a settlement; the way would then be clear for the U.S. to rearm Iran and to back Iranian diplomatic efforts to recapture territory seized by Iraq. Other rumors had it that the hostages, who reportedly had been scattered to safe houses around Iran, had been brought back to Tehran, and that plans for another secret rescue attempt had been scrapped...
...growing recognition that the civil war cannot be stopped as long as Somoza reigns. As an American-trained national guardsman put it last week, "In this war, nobody gives an inch. The current round could cease in two weeks. But when it does, both sides will just rearm, and we'll be fighting again in three months or so, just like before...
During the February revolt against the hapless government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Kurds took advantage of the chaotic situation to rearm. They stormed army garrisons in northern Iran, seizing huge quantities of weapons. The latest outbreak apparently began over the appropriation by the army garrison in Sanandaj of a large portion of the city's flour supply, as well as the bulk of the town's bread. Feelings among the city's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, were already running high because the local revolutionary courts were dominated by Shi'ites loyal...