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Without air superiority, says one foreign military attaché in Buenos Aires, "the British might be able to land troops, but they would take very heavy losses because they could not keep an umbrella over them for a long enough period. When the Harriers are supporting their troops, they are a match for the Argentine planes, but they can't be there all the time. They simply don't have enough." Adds a Western European military observer: "Once the troops were ashore, the entire Argentine air force would go into battle. The British could not cover the troops...
...part airplane, part motorcycle, part sailboat, and looks like a lawn chair being chased through the sky by a beach umbrella...
...after a buildup of conventional and second-strike retalitory forces) on the grounds that any nuclear conflict is likely to escalate and thus "involve unacceptable risks to the national life that military forces exist to defend." The Reagan Administration, as well as some West Europeans under the American nuclear "umbrella," strongly oppose any non-first-use declaration because it would allegedly lower the perceived risks to an aggressor contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first-use policy is the only rational one. The question which in the long run must be addressed...
...Israel currently sees the PLO as anathema to its security although many reasonable Israelis recognize that some kind of Palestinian automony in the West Bank and Gaza is inevitable, if only for demographic reasons. And the PLO an umbrella organization which encompasses 55 separate branches, seems the most visible and most likely representative of the Palestinian people. But rushing to include the Soviet-backed PLO in bargaining does not immediately ensure a settlement favorable to any party, let along all parties...
...International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an umbrella organization of numerous regional groups, gathered for four days to examine issues ranging from the ineffectiveness of civil defense to the genetic disorders which a nuclear war would cause...