Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, there will be an increase in the Arabs' unfriendly feelings toward Americans. Also, this action [signing the treaty] will hasten the day of revolution against those reactionary regimes that depend on the Americans, and it will push Arabs to depend more and more on the Soviet Union...
...some positive results in that it will toughen the Palestinians in their confrontation with the Israelis and assure the success of revolution against reactionary regimes. From the American standpoint, the agreement will have a negative result: increasing enmity toward the U.S. and bringing the Arabs closer to the Soviet Union. But for ourselves, for us Arabs, that is a positive result. Why should we be closer to the Soviets? Because the Americans have challenged us. America is involved in a conspiracy [against the Arab world], primarily because of its policy toward Israel. In our view, whoever is against the Americans...
While it is clear that the AVF is not the panacea that many thought it might be, reinstituting draft registration is a misguided attempt at solving a complex problem. Registration supporters base their arguments on Pentagon studies that envision a scenario something like this: The Soviet Union (for some unexplained reason) sends massed troops into Western Europe. This sudden development--the United States intelligence community evidently knew nothing about it--mushrooms into "a prolonged war with extensive casualties." It seems that some of our representatives--who never speak in terms of the Vietnam debacle--forgot that the Department of Defense...
Meanwhile, McCloskey and others advance the argument that the AVF is a serious financial liability. They cite studies showing that the Soviet Union allots only 23 per cent of its defense budget for manpower while 56 per cent of the military budget in the United States provides a less-than-adequate military force. If money is the heart of the problem--as they say it is--reinstituting registration procedures is a long and unnecessarily tortuous path to relieving financial strain. With an additional $2.5 billion earmarked for the AVF, the Defense Department could meet it's emergency manpower requirements...
BORN. To Olga Korbut, 23, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and now works for the Byelorussian State Sports Committee, and Leonid Bortkevich, 28, lead vocalist of Pesnyary, the Soviet Union's top folk-rock group: a son, their first child; in Minsk. Name: Richard...