The World - News from Nov. 1, 1985

Militant Islamic factions in the Middle East have obtained increasingly sophisticated weapons and are beyond the control of any government, the International Institute of Strategic Studies said in its 1985-86 Military Balance survey. The London research center also said that Israel maintains military superiority over any of its neighbors. But it warned that a belief held by radical Lebanese groups that Israel has been defeated and driven out of Lebanon “bodes ill for future peace.”