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...only budget cuts: Ronald Reagan has got himself into a two-front war with Congress. Last week there were signs of hardening opposition on the Hill to the Administration's proposed $8.5 billion sale to Saudi Arabia of advanced military equipment, including five E-3A Sentries-computer-laden surveillance aircraft that carry Airborne Warning and Control Systems (AWACS). Minority Leader Robert Michel told the President flatly that the deal is certain to be rejected by the House. Led by Republican Bob Packwood of Oregon and Democrat Henry Jackson of Washington, 50 Senators signed up as co-sponsors...
...every turn, Ford found himself fighting a two-front war. Clamping down hard to restrain the inflation threatening the financial fabric of the nation could tip the economy into a deep recession...
...while they concentrated their effort more than 300 miles away at the far end of Israel on the rolling Golan plain above the Sea of Galilee. Here, along a 60-mile front, the Syrians had massed nearly 1,000 tanks. And here the Israelis, forced to fight a simultaneous two-front war, decided to make their first major counterattack...
Tlas is popular with the armed forces in part because of his unflinching policy of retaliation against Israeli attacks. Since 1970 he and Assad have consistently favored a coordinated command with Egypt, a policy that led directly to the two-front assault on the occupied territories on Yom Kippur...
...Egypt, Syria and Jordan in the Six-Day War, Israel's political and military leaders have evinced a confidence that may have become self-deluding. They discounted the Arabs' ability to keep military secrets, to mobilize quickly, to supply troops in the field, or to coordinate a two-front attack. Israel assumed that in any future battle the Arabs would turn and run as they...