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...enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers have perished in running battles with the militiamen, who receive guns and training from Israel. Moreover, the Lebanese fighting has forced Assad to redeploy many of his best troops from Syria's border with Israel along the Golan Heights. Only one Syrian armored division now stands between the massive Israeli war machine and Damascus, a mere 40 miles away...
...Along the 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet frontier, where both sides have been feverishly building up forces since bloody Ussuri River clashes earlier this year, tensions relax quickly. Moscow withdraws many of the thousands of men who guard Central Asia and the Soviet Far East. The Chinese start to redeploy forces dug in along the frontier, moving them into political and civic action work inside China to help heal the wounds caused by Chairman Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution. The Soviets resume a degree of aid to China, mainly in industrial credits, but offer no assistance to China...
...General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), meeting last week in Seattle, similarly denounced reparations but requested that the church redeploy funds to make more than $30 million available to fight poverty and racial discrimination. Earlier, the General Synod of the United Church of Christ created a new Commission for Racial Justice and guaranteed it a minimum...
...inability or unwillingness to mount a larger series of assaults than they did last week made the President's indecision a little easier. Unlike Tet last year, the attacks caused no real upset of the balance of power in South Viet Nam. Allied forces were not forced to redeploy, nor did any important defenses budge. The Communists completely bypassed recently pacified and highly vulnerable allied pacification areas in the countryside, concentrating largely on military installations. "We expect our indicators will wiggle a little," said U.S. Pacification Chief William E. Colby, "but so far the effect of the new offensive...
...flexible and mobile as possible. Washington learned a lesson from both World War II and the Korean War aftermaths: the longer a division remains committed in a foreign country such as West Germany or South Korea after the guns fall silent, the more difficult is it to redeploy it elsewhere in an emergency-often because U.S. troops become pawns in foreign politics...