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P.L.O. officials also warned that Israel was planning an imminent assault on southern Lebanon, ostensibly to weaken Palestinian artillery positions. Some feared an attack could come this week as Arab leaders gather for a summit meeting in Fez, Morocco. The most likely item on their agenda: Saudi Arabia's eight-point peace plan, which calls for a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, while implicitly recognizing Israel by upholding the "right of the countries of the region to live in peace." An Israeli move into southern Lebanon would almost certainly scuttle the Saudi peace plan...
Moreover, a pledge not to use nuclear weapons first would weaken the doctrine of "extended deterrence," the American nuclear umbrella that covers Western Europe. For that doctrine to remain credible, the U.S. must retain the option of first using nuclear weapons against an attack on Western Europe by the Warsaw Pact's numerically superior conventional forces. If a war in Europe were limited to conventional arms, the Soviets would be heavily favored...
...long-awaited negotiations approach, both sides clearly have far to go before any solid arms control agreement can be reached. And in the interim, Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials will surely continue to try to discredit the U.S. and weaken NATO, by exploiting the growing fears in Europe of nuclear warfare...
...past decade rent control has survived in Cambridge through a precarious one man majority on the city council. Four councilors--members of the Cambridge Civic Association--have pledged to maintain the present system, four would like to at least significantly weaken it, and one--former mayor and long-time councilor Alfred E. Vellucci--takes delight in holding the swing vote. He has never dropped his support of rent control, though...
...even in victory. Approval of the sale would enrage Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and perhaps harden him against further conciliation in the Middle East peace process. Disapproval would humiliate Reagan. In addition, it would likely impel the Saudis to buy comparable Nimrod radar planes from Britain and would weaken U.S. influence with the biggest exporter of oil to the West. Whatever the outcome, the debate has already strained U.S.-Saudi relations and diminished Reagan's standing among American Jews...