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...Baabda, tank and heavy artillery shells were slashing into P.L.O. positions in the huts and deserted buildings near the edge of the Burj al Barajneh refugee camp. "In many places we were in the open," explained an Israeli briefing officer. "For that reason we had to improve our position." The 'improvement" involved firing volleys of artillery and Soviet-built BM-21 rockets captured from the P.L.O...
...threatens to split the Alliance apart permanently as some commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have suggested. Instead, it is important in pointing out most clearly how the Reagan administration lets the ideology debated at the Heritage Foundation become U.S. foreign policy. Rhetoric 15 fine in it think-tank but once is practice, there must be a healthy portion of pragmatic diplomacy added. The U.S. cannot orchestrate a foreign policy without regard for the needs of its Allies. It cannot blindly decide that what is good for the U.S. is necessarily good for Europe. It was the message...
...support from the Soviet Union and its allies, including North Korea, Cuba and East Germany. Most helpful, perhaps, has been Syria, an Arab neighbor with a long history of hostility toward Iraq. Through Syria, Iran received large shipments of Soviet weaponry, including 130-mm artillery pieces, antiaircraft guns and tank engines. In the meantime, Washington remained silent while Israel sold Iran an estimated $120 million worth of military hardware, including spare parts and ammunition for Iran's American-made equipment, which had been acquired during the rule of the Shah. Nor did the U.S. openly complain that the Israelis were...
From another peak about 5,000 ft. above the valley floor, we were able to look down into Khonis, a village in which the Soviets had set up a base. Tanks with huge rollers to predetonate mines were sweeping the main road through the town. Another tank was trying to move a destroyed armored personnel carrier out of the way. Some Soviet soldiers were sitting on a large carpet they had removed from an abandoned home. In the river was the wreckage of two Soviet helicopters that had been shot down earlier in the fighting. From time to time...
...Syrian rebuff effectively ended a tenuous four-day truce between the two armies. Heading north from their fortified positions in Baabda, Israeli armor cut the Beirut-Damascus highway just west of Jamhur, less than a mile from Syrian tank and infantry posts. By seizing Beirut's surrounding hilltops, the Israelis choked off all main supply and exit routes for the Syrian and Palestinian units remaining in the capital...