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TIME learned that the Israelis are convinced that a systematic military buildup -involving men and tanks as well as missiles-took place inside the "standstill zone" on the first two nights of the ceasefire. The evidence was recorded in a series of photographs, most of them taken during aerial reconnaissance missions early the mornings of Aug. 8 and 9. According to Israeli analysts, the photos clearly showed that SA-2 and SA3 missile batteries had been moved roughly halfway inside the 32-mile-wide Egyptian cease-fire zone toward areas near the towns of Kantara and Ismailia (see map opposite...
...virtually every poison in jet-age aerial combat, however, there is an antidote. Though the Israeli-developed devices could not cope with the improved missiles, U.S. equipment has a larger number of frequencies. Washington has released more than a hundred ECM pods to Israel, each consisting of a bomblike container 10 ft. long and weighing about 300 lbs., which fits under the wing of a Phantom like an auxiliary fuel tank. Inside each pod are three canisters containing "noisemakers," or jammers, that radiate electromagnetic waves in the same frequencies used by the acquisition, tracking and terminal guidance systems...
TAPS officials argue that special safeguards, including 73 cutoff valves and aerial surveillance, would prevent any disaster. Even so, last April, conservation groups persuaded a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to enjoin both the pipeline and the access road. Neither can be built, the court ruled, until the Interior Department heeds the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which requires a detailed report on the pipeline's ecological effects before the department can issue a building permit. Even without the court order, says Interior Secretary Hickel, his department will block the line until it is proved safe...
...real test?moving the oil?has not yet been met. TAPS has spent, its officials say, $16.5 million so far on soil tests and aerial photographic surveys of the line's route across Alaska. "If we embarrass the Administration with any sort of ecology problem," says a Humble executive, "we will be crucified." Plans call for the "best pipe ever used by the oil industry," he adds. Electronic monitoring devices and 30-ton safety locks would turn off the pipeline's pressure five minutes after a leak was spotted...
...Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan predicted four months ago: "This summer is going to be an electrifying one, an electronic one. There will be some fighting, but its accent will probably revolve around the deployment and setting up of new weapons systems. There will be lots of aerial incursions." By an electronic summer, Dayan meant clashes between Soviet-built, radar-controlled Egyptian surface-to-air missiles and Israeli jets equipped with electronic countermeasure (ECM) devices. Bearing out Dayan's forecast fully, the electronic war last week was humming at full frequency-and it involved not only...