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...three heliborne commando teams to attack power lines, an army camp and a bridge deep inside Syria, in reprisal for Syrian attacks on Israeli positions on the Golan Heights. Two days later, Lebanon protested to the United Nations over Israeli shelling of three border villages. In a five-hour aerial battle over Suez, the Israelis claimed to have downed a MIG-21 -their 76th kill of an Egyptian jet during the thousand days...
...square miles of territory in 30 countries. However the Senate may define "national commitment," these installations alone commit the U. S. to a policy of unilateral military response in much of the world. Such unilateral action would even cover, as Mr. Nixon showed last week, the right to authorize aerial bombings on the Plaine des Jarres or massive strategic assistance to the Royal Laotian Army. SR 85 merely compels the President to choose tactics which will command Congressional support or create Congressional hostility...
...center of communications of Germany's Eastern Front." The official Royal Air Force war history says the bombing was necessary to disrupt the German retreat before the onrushing Red Army. The U.S. State Department has said that it was in response to Stalin's request for "increased aerial support." British Historian David Irving, maintains, however, that the attack was a purely political act, designed "to impress the Soviet delegation" after the Yalta talks on postwar political problems. And many Germans still feel the bombing was vengeance for the destruction of Coventry, England...
...endless sea of people on the mall that it went temporarily blind. After all. SMC did what they set out to do. Against all odds, defying scare-campaigns from the Justice Department, F. B. I. harassment of charter bus companies, miserable weather, SMC actually brought more people together-the aerial photographs put the number between 0.8 and 1.6 million-than had ever assembled before on American ground...
...California researchers suggested that early predictions of wholesale plant and animal destruction in the waters off Santa Barbara may well have been exaggerated (TIME, June 13). Their findings may be confirmed later this month when a wildlife census will be made. Some ecological changes have already been detected. An aerial survey along a 30-mile stretch of beach recently counted only 200 grebe, compared with the past population of 4,000 to 7,000. Divers have discovered large patches of sunken oil that lie in gooey ribbons up to six feet thick along the edges of the reefs. Gray whales...