Word: mideast
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...Japan, increasingly rode on cheap Arab oil, Quietly, throughout the '50s and '60s Western dependence on imported oil steadily grew, until the sheiks gathered enough expertise and courage to take advantage of their golden opportunity. The subsequent oil shocks of '73-'74 and '79-'80, both associated with Mideast war, dealt a severe and permanent blow to the World economy. These shocks were a major contributor to three well-known trends of the '70s--inflation, unemployment, and conservation. A loss to the Western economies of over $1 trillion had to be paid by someone, and it wasn...
...suicidal truck driver on Oct. 23, killing 241 U.S. servicemen (see following story). Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins, one of the authors of a report by a House subcommittee, went beyond the security question to criticize the "peacekeeping" role of the Marines. Said he: "The people in the Mideast have been fighting since the days of Abraham. Asking our Marines to stop the fighting there is like trying to change the course of Niagara Falls with a bucket." Hopkins said that General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had testified before his committee that all five chiefs oppose...
...Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.), the junior senator from Massachusetts, also has his eye on something hard to find in Santa's sack. "He wants peace in the Mideast and Central America," said Press Secretary Mary Ellen Thompson...
...Lebanon showed conclusively the superiority enjoyed by Israel over Syria, especially in the air. Also, the "new strategic cooperation" between the US and Israel announced in Washington two weeks ago strengthened even further the alliance between the two nations. As the only reliable and genuinely legitimate government in the Mideast, Israel needs and deserves our help, and we can benefit from cooperation as well. Egypt and the Soviet Union give more cause for concern. Massive Soviet rearming of Syria after the Lebanese invasion should raise ominous questions for the Israelis and the West as to Russian intentions in the Middle...
...roads would not be used for exercises, only kept in constant readiness for use in an emergency. 3)Maintenance of ammunition and supply dumps throughout the territory. The need for these logistical supports quickly becomes crucial in the type of lightning warfare used by modern forces, especially in the Mideast. 4)Some type of extradition process exercised between the Israeli government and whatever duly-constituted authority emerges for the Palestinians. This would be necessary to prevent creation of a safe harbor for terrorists, of the type that Southern Lebanon had become. In any event, Israeli casualties from terrorism have never...