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...whole, what the Elis lack--on both offense and defense--is consistency. Their big-play defense, which gives up an average of 29.1 points a game, has not made the big play consistently enough to keep opposing teams out of the end-zone. Their air-attack also has not soared consistently, producing many three-and-out series and registering a low 37.5 third-down efficiency mark...
Carter stressed his continued support of the "triad" defense system. The president said he believes the current fleet ofB-52's is capable of providing the air-attack portion of America's nuclear strike force for at least the next decade...
Just how Nasser pressured Hussein into backing his phony air-attack ploy will surely become one of history's more curious footnotes. Israel monitored and tape-recorded a radio conversation between Nasser and Hussein on the second day of the war, and released the dialogue two days later. The voices were unmistakably those of Nasser and the King; neither bothered to deny it. A sampling of their talk...
Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day, the next day? Then, why not put a lid over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards...
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