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Each franduse indrpendently cloud and operatic( FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1989 spread reports to the contrary, Israel's Ambassador to France Ovadia Sofer this week declared emphatically that "Israel does not have — and does not intend to have — chemical weapons." More ambiguous, though, was his response to a question about Israel's nuclear poten- tial, which the Arab states have used to justify their preoccupation with chemical weapons. "Israel," he said, Today, a galaxy of Arab states around 1 Israel pose a potent twin threat: chemical weapons and the means of delivering them — I medium-range, ground-to-ground missiles. repeating the standard response, "will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the region." In Jerusalem, meanwhile, Deputy Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset late last week that Israel, too, has "incontrover- tible evidence" that Libya and some other close neighbors have the ability to produce chemical weapons. Israel, he said, would take steps to discourage both the production and proliferation of such weapons. ❑ Germans 1st Used Gas • The world's leading custom closet company. • A decade of service and experience. • One day installation, spotless cleanup. • Fully adjustable. 26 in the rear and seriously hamper the mobilization of Israel's civilian reserves, who constitute at least two-thirds of its fighting force. Whether used for ag- gressive or defensive pur- poses, however, chemical weapons now are regarded as an integral part of the Syrian strategic concept against Israel and are ostensibly deployed to counter Israel's nuclear capability. According to Levran, a chemical weapons strike against civilian targets would pose "a harsh test" to Israel's staying power and its capaci- ty for absorbing such a shock. Israel's military doctrine is based on its ability to carry the fight into enemy territory and to score a quick, decisive victory. This is not simply a desirable aim but an opera- tional necessity, given Israel's extreme sensitivity to loss of life, its limited capacity to ab- sorb an attack inside its own territory and the socio- economic dislocation that would result from a pro- tracted war with a massive civilian component in its fighting machine. A war involving chemical weapons would present enor- mous problems to Israel, severely diminishing its abili- ty to contain the human losses and bring hostilities to a swift conclusion. "It would;' said Levran, "render such a war more difficult and more costly." Notwithstanding wide- $ 169 88 AU. MAN'S West Bloomfield On The Boardwalk Orchard Lake Road South of Maple 626-3362 Nightmare Continued from preceding page COLE • HAAN SALE ENDS TUESDAY! HURRY IN FOR BEST SELECTION! Now $ 4988 More!) Poison gas was first used by Germany in the 1915 bat- tle of Ypres during World War I. Over the next three years, an estimated 125,000 tons of chlorine and mustard gas were unleashed, -killing 94,000 people and injuring 1.2 million more. These gasses, however, were primitive when com- pared with the sophisticated nerve and chemical sub- stances that have since been developed. The use of poison gas dur- ing World War I wiped out the long-standing military code that had existed in Europe and transferred corn- mand from the battlefield to laboratories, from where scientists were able to inflict death at long range. According to Western intel- ligence estimates, some 22 nations now have the poten- tial for deploying poison gas. In some ways, chemical weapons offer greater dangers than nuclear weapons. Like nuclear weapons, they can inflict large-scale casualties, but unlike nuclear weapons, they can be produced by states with relatively low- grade technological ability and they are, therefore, liable to mass proliferation. According to one source this week, military missions were lining up in Baghdad to learn the secrets of chemical weapons after the Gulf War. "Poor countries," he said, "regard chemical weapons as an equalizer, a kind of giant- killer which can act as a deterrent to a powerful neighbor." — H.D. 4