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...people who would be glad to know that the U.S. is in there and committed, and I think we would find, like a magnet, a whole lot of those filings coming toward us." There are many steps that the U.S. could take with both allies and opponents. Panelist Dale Tahtinen argued that Iraq, an important oil producer and supposedly proSoviet, has been making efforts "for the last five, six years, even longer than that" to develop contacts with the U.S. Partly this is because it is afraid of Iran, whoever may be in charge. And Tahtinen even saw opportunities...
...vital step would be to shore up the friendly Bulent Ecevit government in Turkey. Said Tahtinen: "We have to find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
...Military Option. The thorniest problem of all is how the U.S. should use its military power. Tahtinen advocated a kind of presence at one remove: U.S. assistance to Saudi Arabia and possibly other friendly nations to expand their own airfields and naval facilities. By doing that, he says, "you are making the Saudis feel we are not going to let them down." The implication, Tahtinen noted, would be that "we would be willing to utilize those facilities in time of crisis if invited to do so. At least that gives us a potential...
...Dale R. Tahtinen, 33, is assistant director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-oriented think tank in Washington. Though basically a conservative himself, he long opposed massive U.S. support for the Shah of Iran...
...Valle (whose nation has helped trigger the current Latin American weapons buildup) demands: "Let the industrial nations stop their indecent competition in the sale of arms to the Third World nations!" Dr. Dale Tahtinen, assistant director of foreign-and defense-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, agrees. "If countries were left to themselves," says Tahtinen, "they would mostly buy only what they need as they perceive it ... the cheap stuff and not the flashy weapons...
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