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It cannot, like its Arab neighbors, offer itself to the highest bidder.- Israel is the only state in the entire Middle East ready and willing to give the United States whatever it has that we need to defend our interests, notably our oil sources, in the Persian Gulf area. The big brass making pol- icy in the Reagan Adminis- tration dreams of a "stragegic consensus" of the Persian Gulf states in de- fense of the area against Soviet encroachment. It persists in this dream al- though the very regimes which would be the targets of a Soviet takeover attempt are the most adamant in their refusal to let us take • more than the most elemen- tary defense precautions there. They deny us the use of bases on their territory, they deplore the very idea of an American presence in the area and they practice the most brazen extortion in the supply of the Persian Gulf oil on which we still remain so dependent. The Reagan Administra- tion is acting tough, very tough, in its pronounce- ments to and about the Soviet Union; one can say it - did everything but dare Qadaffi to attack our ma- neuvering fleet in the Gulf of Sidra. It warned the North Korean regime over a missile that may or may not have been fired at an American reconnaissance plane, but it has let the Saudi Arabian regime walk all over it and it meekly complies with demands that we "prove" our friendship by providing it with a mighty arsenal of death. The Administration is in an embarrassing position. The Carter Administration had promised Congress that FINE ARTS AUCTION the collection of DR. WILLIAM CARR and various other owners SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1981 •- 2 0C-3 00 P M • Refreshments Se- .ec :._,C,TiON 3 0C P MARRIOTT INN -WIN SCHULER'S 3600 PLYMOUTH ROAD. ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN , ", - E3FRAND - r• Ur- t t e • APPEL , • "Jr-I- 't • • t- - ALSO - Pork Ciao )t Auctioneer. ALBERT BCAGLIONE 29469 Northwestern Hwy Sowthf Nhchlgoan 46034 13131354-2343 The Saudis angrily deny scribes Saudi Arabia, whose Washington assertions that King Khalid recently pro- they have accepted restric- claimed a jihad or holy war tions on the use or deploy- against Israel, as a powerful ment of the F-15s and force for peace in the AWACS. Middle East and urges sup- Assistant Secretary of port for President-Reagan's State James Buckley, al- policies which it says in- most as expert in double- dude "evenhanded treat- talk as his erudite brother, ment in the sale of military assures us that the AWACS equipment to our friends in couldn't be used against Is- the Middle East, especially reel because if they moved Saudi Arabia — the nation within operable range, the whose stability is so critical Israeli 'Air Force would to the economic well-being shoot them down. Jim of the free nations of the Buckley wasn't born yes- world." The Mobil ad extensively terday and he knows what JAMES BUCKLEY 'would happen in his own quoted the praise President the 62 F-15 fighters it had State Dempartment and Anwar Sadat of Egypt everywhere else if the Is- lavished on Saudi Arabia agreed to sell to Saudi Arabia would not be raelis shot_down a Saudi for its role in arranging the enhanced with fuel tanks, AWACS in Saudi airspace. Lebanese cease-fire ending However, shooting down that fighting between the bomb racks and other enhancement gear that an AWACS isn't as easy as Israeli forces and the Pales- would transform them into Jim Buckley suggests. The tine Liberation Organize- AWACS is not a sitting tion bands, but it was re- the World's most powerful duck; it is probably the markably silent on Sadat's fighting machines. But the Saudi Arabians upped the finest battle command post contemptuous dismissal of ante and demanded that martial man has ever de- Fand's eight-point "peace plan" which called for the their F-15s be enhanced, vised. It can spot an enemy plane taking off•250 or 350 virtual dismemberment of that they be supplemented miles away (it depends on Israel and the establish- with aerial tankers and provided with Sidewinder what Air Force expert ment of a Palestine Arab you're talking to) and can state in areas to be ceded by air-to-air missiles. summon up defensive forces Israel, including East Additionally, they de- to nip the attack. Jerusalem. manded five AWACS sur- That plan, Mobil pro- In this case, the defensive veillance planes that would forces called up would be claimed, is a major event bare every square foot of Is- enhanced F-15s, sister upon which the United rael to their radar scanners. planes to the attackers. States should try to build." If we didn't come across, we were warned, Saudi Saudi Arabian AWACS If you count' the former Arabia would buy surveil- spying on Israel would be senators and congressmen, safe from attack unless the lance planes from Britain politicians, lawyers and and Mirage fighters from Israeli government decided garden-variety lobbyists on France, although neither their presence was so the Saudi Arabian payroll the British plane nor the dangerous as to justify the in Washington, plus the Mirage is in the same class risk of sanctions by Wash- endeavors of the oil com- ington and the threat of panies and firms like as the American. all-out war. Is that the But the Administration Bechtel having billions in American strategic objet- contracts in Saudi Arabia, professed to take the Saudi threat seriously and agreed tive — to create additional you can begin to corn- possibilities of Arab-Israeli prehend the extent of the to all the Saudi demands. war in the Middle East? barrage to which our Pentagon spokesmen as- serted that the AWACS for The Pentagon was delib- opinion-makers in and out the Saudi Arabians erately misleading when it of the media are being ex- wouldn't have "all" the ad- put out a detailed technical posed. vanced equipment of their They are being brain- rts, , complete with cha- rpo am U.S. Air Force counterparts re to show that the wahsed into identifying as and asserted that, in any grams, and terrain gen- gestures of friendship ac- case, delivdry would not_be erally would block a large tions the Saudi Arabians made before 1985. 1 from view of have taken in their own Although a majority in scanners self-interest, many of them each house of Congress part Israel with of the AWACS operating distinctly harmful to signed a letter to President American interests. I have in Saudi a . ace at 28,000 feet. Reagan asking him not to yet to understand the logic proceed with the deal, the Why should the AWACS in considering the failure of Administration is going e flown at 28,000 feet when Saudi Arabia's coup at the . ahead and Congress has 50 b they could operate at 40,000 last OPEC meeting as evi- days in which to approve or feet and vastly enlarge the dence of Saudi Arabian veto the transaction. a under surveillance? area friendship. Meanwhile, the Adminis- There can be no mistake tration has launched an ag- Fla. Federation gressive campaign to win about it — the AWACS and popular support to crush the enhanced F-15s to- Cited by HIAS Congressional resistance. gether would be a constant NEW YORK — The_ President Reagan, we are threat to Israel and their told, will take a hand him- presence in Saudi Arabia, Greater Miami Jewish Fed- self, going directly to the instead of easing tensions, eration will receive the Zvi people over the heads of would require Israel ' to Hirsch Masliansky Award unending 24- of HIAS (Hebrew Immig- Congress as he did so effec- maintain an tively in the budget and tax hour alert day in, day out. rant Aid Society) at a dinner debates. That is not the way to peace. in New York Sept. 20. The Israelis, it is re- The Administration has The presentation will ported, are being signalled some remarkable allies in mark the first time since the that major American its campaign to put the award was established 10 strategy is involved and AWACS deal across. Mobil years ago that it will be they should mute their op- Oil, one of the "Seven Sis- given to an entire commu- position. ters," a partner of Saudi nity, rather than to an indi- I would doubt that anyone Arabia in ARAMCO, the oil vidual. The selection of the in a responsible position in company which exploits the the Administration believes Saudi Arabian oil fields, is Miami federation "reflects for one minute that the brazenly campaigning for HIAS admiration for the Saudi Arabians could or the arms deal without reve- magnificent response — would use their F-15s and aling its own financial rela- performed with-the highest supporting equipment tionship with Saudi Arabia standards • of profes- against Soviet forces or and its dependency on Saudi sionalism — of Miami's Jewry to the influx of Cuban have any intentions for Arabian favor. In large "public service" refugees and other uprooted their use otherthan against advertisements, Mobil de- persons." Israel.