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Pentagon Reports Shipment of Arms
to Israel causing Defense Problems

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Pentagon sources said Wed-
nesday that "a valid con-
cern" exists within the De-
fense Department that ship-
ment of arms to Israel are
"creating problems" for the
defense establishment.
"Some erosion of support"
for Israel among U.S. mili-
tary officers is stemming
from what they consider
shortages of certain kinds of
missiles and tanks to meet
Israel's defense requirements
and U.S. defense programs,
sources said.
Press reports in recent

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In view of these reports ,
JTA questioned usually reli-
able Pentagon sources whe-
ther the officials' statements
to the media were a lobbying
effort by the Pentagon to ac-
quire greater appropriations
for the Defense Department
or whether some shortages
actually exist because of
Pentagon programming.
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nuclear weapons to meet both
U.S. and Israeli requirements
and those of other allies.
In this connection, Penta-
gon sources emphasized that
Secretary of Defense James
R. Schlesinger has been de-
claring publicly that senators
and representatives who
strongly favor assistance to
Israel have been strongly op-
posing military aid to South
Vietnam.
"It's a tough problem—for
us and Israel," one Pentagon
official remarked in the light
of the differences of thinking
between support for demo-
cratic Israel and other coun-
tries whose governments are
opposed by liberal elements
in Congress.
Pentagon sources said the
U.S. Army has an "author-
ized" force level of 10,000
tanks. Officials reported Is-
tanks. Officials reported It-
rael wants 600 tanks this
year, in addition to the 450
tanks shipped to Israel since
the Yom Kippur War and
that the Defense Department
cannot provide the 600 tanks
without withdrawal of tanks
from existing army inven-
tories.
The current output of tanks
is 40 a month and the Penta-
gon was reported having
trouble boosting output to 60
a month because there is lack
of manufacturer capacity to
make castings for the tanks,
according to P en ta g o n
sources.
also
Pentagon , officials
have said they have similar
problems in connection with
Israeli requests for _ other
weaponS, such as two anti-
tank missiles, "Smart"
bombs and new F-4 fighter
jets.

Waldheim May
Visit Mideast

UNITED NATIONS (JTA)
—Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, who has ex-
pressed concern over the de-
teriorating situation in the
Middle East three times in
the last few days, is expected
to go to that region before
the end of the month, sources
here said.
They said the secretary
general was fearful of a new
outbreak of hostilities be-
tween Israel and the Arab
states through some "miscal-
culation."
The sources said Dr. Wald-
heim probably would leave
after the General Assembly
-votes on a Palestine resolu-
tion but before Nov. 30 when
the mandate expires for the
United Nations Distngage-
ment Observation Force
(UNDOF) on the Israeli-
Syrian front.
Dr. Waldheim is expected
to visit the principal Mideast
capitals, which would include
Jerusalem, Cairo, Amman,
Beirut and Damacus. The
fact that he would be leav-
ing the UN while the General
Assembly is still in session,
something rarely done by a
secretary general, is indica-
tive of the gravity with which
he views the Middle East
situation, the sources said.

18—Friday, Nov. 22, 1974

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Syria Reported
Violating Accords

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Syrians are fortifying a road
they built to the summit of
Mt. Hermon in apparent vio-
lation of the disengagement
agreement, Israeli sources
reported.
The road was built after
the agreement went into of-
feet. Damascus claimed that
it was intended to make the
9,000-foot peak accessible to
tourists.
The strong points that Syr-
ian troops have built along
the road are regarded by Is-
rael as an improvement of
Syria's military position that
is specifically banned by the
disengagement accord.
Other violations in recent
weeks have been the em-
placement of tanks inside the
UN buffer zone separating
Israeli and Syrian forces on
the Golan Heights and the in-
troduction of heavy mortars
into the limited forces zone.

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Military May Have to Intervene
to Bring Arab Oil Prices Down

WASHINGTON (ZINS)-
"A grim new mood is devel-
oping in Washington that
military intervention- may be
necessary to bring down the
price of oil and save the
West from economic ruin,"
according to columnist Jack
Anderson, quoting top pol-
icymakers.
The policy experts don't be-
lieve the Soviet Union would
interfere with a U.S. miliary
operation in the Middle East,
just as the U.S. didn't try to
stop the Soviet Union from
invading Czechoslovakia. The
secret speculation is that

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popular with the Arab neigh-
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