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...network of such arrangements is strategically critical if the U.S. is to deter, and, if necessary, resist, a Soviet thrust toward the warm waters and the oil. To be sure, Israel's own military power might be a genuine asset to the U.S. in such a contingency. Israel could provide the American units with tactical air support-as long as its hostile Arab neighbors did not take advantage of the broader conflict and attack Israel and thus tie down its air force. Moreover, while the possibility of a Soviet blitzkrieg into Iran or Pakistan cannot be discounted...
...Friday, at the end of a week of thrust and counterthrust across the embattled border, Israeli forces staged a naval raid on Jiyah, 13 miles south of Beirut, and Palestinians responded by sending yet another volley of rocket fire into the settlements of northern Israel. By that time, the 14 days of continuous fighting had become the heaviest between the Israelis and the Palestinians since the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon in March 1978. The Palestinians and Lebanese had suffered by far the greater number of casualties: some 450 dead and 1,500 wounded, most of them in a bombing...
...estimates, would run out of ammunition after only two weeks of conventional war. Worst of all, perhaps, the U.S. has an announced commitment to oppose by force any Soviet move toward the Persian Gulf oilfields, but today might have to resort to tactical nuclear weapons to block such a thrust...
...however, the R.D.F. seems to be planning for Mission Impossible. Its orders are to concentrate initially on countering a Soviet invasion of Iran. Kelley reluctantly admits that the R.D.F. has no hope of pouring in enough men and materiel to halt the substantial forces that the U.S.S.R. could thrust across its border with Iran. The best the R.D.F. could do would be to land a small "tripwire" force around the oilfields in southern Iran, which the Soviets could not crash through without inviting either massive bombing attacks by American B-52s and FB-111s flying from forward bases...
S.O.B., the culmination of six years of work, was to be a presentation of what really goes on out West from an autobiographical point of view. But rather than a sword thrust into the guts of the ball-breaking capital of the world, Hollywood receives merely an annoying pin-prick...