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...Columbia University's Low Library in New York City. The older generation was played by Walter Mondale, the younger (nine years younger, anyway) by Gary Hart. The issue was not Viet Nam but its lessons and how they should be applied today in Central America and the Persian Gulf. The family was the Democratic Party, once again bitterly divided over the limits of intervention...
...Jewish vote, each candidate has been trying to outdo the other in proclaiming undying fealty to Israel. Hart was quicker to demand the withdrawal of Marines from Lebanon, although how much quicker remains a matter of dispute. Their greatest and most revealing differences in the Middle East come over Persian Gulf oil. Mondale says he would be willing to commit U.S. ground troops to keep it flowing; Hart says he would not. At the debate, Mondale said that the U.S. must "make certain that the American interest in stability and keeping the area out of the reach of the Soviet...
...commerce. But what would he do if a prime supplier of raw materials faced a Soviet-backed revolution? His real mistake so far has been to say too clearly what he would not do, such as not keeping troops in Central America and not committing them to protect the Persian Gulf. Former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, one of the original cold warriors, learned this lesson when he put South Korea outside the U.S. defense perimeter in January 1950. Six months later, North Korea attacked, and the U.S. was forced to step...
...youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick up a 6½-in. by 4½-in.. book found with the dead soldier. He then handed it to Iranian-born Journalist Helene Kafi. A name...
...sell Jordan 1,613 Stinger hand-held antiaircraft missiles and 315 missile launchers for $133 million. In addition, the White House has asked Congress to provide $220 million to equip Jordan with a mobile strike force whose 8,000 troops would be available for putting down trouble in the Persian Gulf states or providing swift defense should the Iran-Iraq war suddenly spill out of the gulf...