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Meanwhile, the mujahedin have been attacking elsewhere in Afghanistan. A section of the pipeline that takes natural gas from Afghanistan to the Soviet Union was blown up several weeks ago. The latest reports from Kabul say that trucks are still bringing in Soviet bodies for shipment home...
...between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could do to dissuade Khomeini from his determination to destroy Saddam Hussein. With Moscow's blessing, Syria gave Iran a shipment of sophisticated, Soviet-supplied weaponry (including missile batteries and antitank rocket launchers) as a gesture...
...fair, the low-flying, heavily armored plane is considered by senior Army officers in Europe to be an effective weapon against tanks and artillery. It was also once a good value. First produced in 1975, the planes cost a relatively modest $5.9 million apiece in 1980. The final shipment was scheduled to be delivered this year. But Addabbo and others insisted last year that the production run of the A-10 be stretched out, and a new two-seat trainer introduced, to help the Farmingdale, N.Y., factory, which employs almost 6,000, remain in operation...
More fundamentally, Washington's policy of showing approval via military aid cannot be condoned. A new shipment of guns to El Salvador will do nothing to bring about conciliation between the leftist guerillas and the new government. Instead, at only serves to increase the tension. In an area as traumatized as El Salvador, it's hard to see how the injection of military aid will do the cause of peace any good. Even the left, which would have proven an improvement but not a panacea for the troubled nation, probably would not have deserved such military support...
...confrontation with Britain has at least temporarily stopped Argentina from shopping the world's best markets for more weaponry. At the urging of Britain, West Germany is holding up the sale of four frigates, six corvettes and six submarines, and France has halted shipment of Crotale surface-to-air and Exocet surface-to-surface missiles. Britain itself has withheld sale of Sea Dart missiles, the same kind that were on the fleet last week heading to-Carrier Veinticinco de Mayo ward the Falkland Islands...