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...skirmishes flared in Ramallah, Nablus and Gaza, Israelis were preparing for the final withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula on April 25, an event that some of them opposed and many dreaded. In a week of drama, the controversial withdrawal, in turn, provoked an Israeli parliamentary crisis, very nearly forcing Prime Minister Menachem Begin to resign and call for new elections. The vote marked the beginning of a parliamentary struggle that was likely to last throughout most of the year...
...easy to imagine places that could become the Sarajevo of the nuclear age: Eastern Europe, where armed resistance to Soviet occupation could spread; Iran, where the U.S.S.R. might be tempted to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of Khomeini's rule; the Arabian Peninsula, where the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force and Soviet airborne units could fight over the oilfields; the Caribbean Basin, where even last week Washington believed Brezhnev was hinting at the possibility of another Cuban missile crisis...
...orange berets and somber brown camouflage uniforms, the 676 members of the 82nd Airborne Division bounded down the ramps of the two blue-and-white El Al jumbo jets. After a 14-hr, flight from Fort Bragg, N.C., they were emerging into the 80° temperature of the Sinai Peninsula-and spearheading a new role for the U.S. in the Middle East. There was a brief delay when it was discovered that the soldiers, like careless tourists, had forgotten to fill out Israeli immigration cards. Finally, clutching their M-16 rifles, the men set off on a nine-mile march...
...post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa...
Haig in private was often more pessimistic about world problems than in public. He warned his staff in January that once Israel returns the rest of the Sinai peninsula to Egypt in April, "Egypt will go back into [the] Arab world, with [the] U.S. isolated as Israel's sole defender." Egypt's position, he said, is "180° different" under Hosni Mubarak than it had been under slain President Anwar Sadat...