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SEE Gazette Telegraph Thursday, Nov. 24, 1977 Colorado Springs, Colo. FRESH JUICY REGULAR GROUND BEEF REGULAR OR BEEF ARMOUR'S HOT DOGS ROBERT'S ASSORTED FLAVORS BONUS-PAK ICE CREAM DELICIOUS EATING RIPE GOLDEN BANANAS REGULAR OR DIPPEN FRESH POTATO CHIPS HAPPY ANY SIZE PKG. HAPPY DAYS 12-OZ. PKG.

HAPPY DAYS HAPPY HAPPY DAYS HALF GAL LBS. FOR HEIDLE HOUSE QUALITY SALAD DRESSING HAPPY HY-TOP FRESH HAMBURG OR HOT DOG 9-OZ. BAG 9-OZ. BOTLS. CHEEZET ITALINA CELERY SEED BUNS kgs OF 8 3 rFRESH BAKED special FRESH JUMBO SIZE CINNAMON ROLLS Scenarios Always See Confrontation By JOHN MACLEAN Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON When President advisers sketch out possible scenarios involving the introduction of nuclear weapons into the Middle East, they quickly arrive at a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

American policy makers begin by assuming Israel has atomic weapons or the means to fabricate them within days, if not hours. Working from there, they hypothesize Israel hard-pressed by Arab armies in some future war. At the same time, they acknowledge the day is far off when current overwhelming conventional military superiority would be imperiled. But should Israel threaten to use the bomb as a last ditch defense, American planners see the Soviet Union and U.S. suddenly to in the Mediterranean, The Soviets could very well send to the introducing super- nower troops into the area in a more active role than ever before.

The U.S. would face choices ranging from fighting the Soviets to cooperating with them. Since the aim of U.S. policy is to avoid superpower confrontations in the Middle East and nuclear war, such thinking gives strong impetus to efforts for a negotiated settlement. But whether a fear of a nuclear exchange makes negotiators more effective or simply more nervous is debatable.

And that is the problem in trying to determine the political consequences of the assumed presence of nuclear weapons in Israel. Atomic bombs make things more complex, not clearer. American analysts say a major reason Israel launched a drive to gain nuclear capability is the desire to establish itself permanently as a nation, a recognition now denied Israel by many Arabs including the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). But whether veiled position as a nuclear power has driven the PLO closer to recognizing Israel as a permanent entity remains unknown. What is known is that many observers within the American intelligence community believe Israel already has built 10 or 20 nuclear weapons.

That estimate was given by CIA Spokesman during a March, 1976, meeting at CIA headquarters with a group of American scientists. Sources say the estimate was based on the amount of weapons-grade nuclear material which could have been produced at secret nuclear site at Dimona in the desert south of Jerusalem. So sensitive is Israel about the Dimona site, that a year ago it refused to allow a delegation of 13 U.S. senators to visit the place. 'The delegation was in Israel to discuss the proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Israel, a joint venture which has foundered, at least for the time, over U.

S. inspection requirements. The Israeli government maJn- tains it never will be the introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. This does not conflict with the U.S. view that Israel if it done it already could put together nuclear weapons in a hurry if necessary.

The effect of this intentional ambiguity is more psychological than anything else. Israeli conventional military strength is great enough to retain superiority over the Arabs for at least five years, according to U.S. estimates. Israel is said to be 60 percent stronger than before the 1973 war, well enough equipped to fight for 30 days without any American resupply, and able to maintain a military edge over the Arabs for 18 months even if the U.S. ended all arms shipments.

But the psychological impact remains great. Arab states not bordering Israel, such as Saudi Arabia and Iraq, would presumably hesitate more than before to send armies against the Jewish state, knowing their capitals could be vulnerable to nuclear attack. Also, the U.S. now has an even greater interest in bolstering conventional forces, to postpone the time at which nuclear weopins might be called into play. But so colossal is nuclear Dower.

that it is hard to trace its influence in current daily events. It is difficult, for instance, to draw a conclusion that atomic power, by itself, ac- rounts for increasing independence from the U.S. However, one pressing concern of immediate interest to U.S. officials is the fear- that Israel will share nuclear secrets with its unlikely ally, South Africa. within the American intelligence community, according to U.S.

sources, believes Israel already has cooperated with South Africa to the extent of designs for nuclear w'eapons. South Africa also provides Israel with a potential test ground for a nuclear device. The bomb probably would have less military application in southern Africa than in the Middle East. Defense analysts say there would be almost no major military targets for South Africa if it were threatened racial war. That confrontation would most likely be a guerrila war.

But a South Africa with the bomb w'ould be a different creature from South Africa without, and the same psychological pressures which could inhibit Saudi Arabia from attacking Israel would Tanzania from seding an invading army. In recent days Israel has agreed to abide by the United Nations arms embargo against South Africa and curtail its conventional arms trade with its white African ally. That is seen as a hopeful sign in a situation that has provided very few such indications. Greek Bridegroom Gets Wife and House By JAMES 0. JACKSON Chicago Tribune SXYLIATOS, Cyprus A guest at a recent Greek Cypriot wedding stepped forward to shake the hand of the groom.

congratulations, he said. married a very nice The groom beamed. He had, indeed, married a lovely house. He also had married a complete set of furniture, dishes, kitchen utensils, a car, and a sizable bank account. Oh, yes.

He also got a wife. But the wife is almost a secondary consideration in a rural wedding in Cyprus, where dowry customs are as strong as they were 500 years ago. Possibly stronger, because a modern dowry often includes such machine-age niceties as cars, stereos, and irrigation purnps. father must provide at least a house for his dowry, or be an old said Andreas Agabiu, 33, a Nicosia chief, we go to marry, we ask what they have land, house, money then we decide if the marriagp can take The daughter of a wealthy man may command a dowry that includes several houses, perhaps an orchard or two, and a savings account of $10,000 or more. can be miiv as sin, with the disposition of a a long-time British resident said.

if got a couple of houses and maybe 100 olive trees for a dowry, the be lined up to call on In such circumstances it is obviously tragic when a man has a houseful of daughters. father-in-law has five daughters but he got dowries for every one of said Andreas proudly. is a shepherder, with only about 100 sheep, but he had a house for each daughter. It was very tough on him, but a father must do A dowry remains her personal property under Cypriot (and Greek) law, so it acts as a kind of insurance policy apinst a weak, greedy, or unloving husband. If a marriage is dissolved, it is the man who must move out.

If a dowry house is to be sold, it is the wife who gives consent. Still, the dowry customs are retreating under the influence 0 education and urbanity. Young men who have read the poetry of Byiuii, who have watched the films of Melina Mercouri, are no longer so content to marry a house, 50 olive trees, and a brace of oxen. want to marry a woman with said Neophytos 22, a as- sistaot at a school iu Luiijisoil,.