AWACS: He Does It Again
Once more Reagan has his way with Congress, this time in foreign affairs
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It was a battle that the Administration had blundered into by
inadvertence, never realizing until almost the last moment how high the
stakes had become. And thus only by investing all the President's
prestige could victory be won. Moreover, that triumph could be only
tentative and ambiguous, trading the certainty of new strains in the
already troubled U.S. relationship with Israel for a marginal, perhaps
temporary, improvement in America's ties with another critical Middle
Eastern nation, Saudi Arabia.