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...continue to suffer from the bloodletting that began when Iraq invaded Iran in September 1980. Iranian leaders still boast that they will sweep across to Iraq's western frontiers, eventually overthrowing the regime of President Saddam Hussein. But so far, Tehran has managed to capture only a thin sliver of Iraqi border territory as a result of its offensive last summer, at a cost of an estimated 30,000 casualties...
...have now are essential, and if we do not get them we are sending bad signals around the world." Weinberger, moreover, points out that even if critics get their way and the Pentagon budget is cut by $5 billion to $10 billion, the slash will hardly make a sliver's worth of difference in a projected deficit of $150 billion. The Defense Secretary has grown so protective of his budget domain that he adamantly refuses to heed requests from Congress to suggest parings. "I don't want to participate in a process of that kind," Weinberger says flatly...
...hold 800 people. Today it is home to more than 1,900 listless Vietnamese "land people," who singly or in family groups bribed their way across Cambodia, which is still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed in a series of bamboo tiers reminiscent of a 19th century slave ship...
What we were about to explore was how far Israel would go in giving up not only the territory freshly gained in the October 1973 war?started by Syria?but also some symbolic piece of territory, even if only a sliver of what Israel had taken in the 1967 war. Every Arab leader had told me that Syria could not merely settle on restoration of the 1973 line; to keep pace with Egypt, which had recovered a slice of the Sinai, some Syrian gain of lands taken by Israel in 1967 was imperative. This was particularly true of Quneitra, provincial
...expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede his planned military move or else exploit it for Soviet ends. The following year he fought a war not to acquire a specific sliver of territory but to restore Egypt's self-respect and thereby increase its diplomatic flexibility. Clearly, there had been an intelligence failure. What no one believed?the consumers no more than the producers of intelligence?was the notion of starting an unwinnable war to restore self-respect...