Word: aircraft
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...resist the requests from both Egypt and Israel for aid beyond the amounts involved in supporting the treaty. The defense ministers of both nations arrived in Washington last week to present their shopping lists. Egypt is seeking help to buy 600 M-60 tanks, 300 F-16 fighter aircraft, 70 transport planes, and up to eight destroyers or submarines. In nonmilitary aid, Egypt wants funds for housing, agricultural production and a new telephone system. In arms alone, Israel wants various tanks, naval guns, missile systems and armored personnel carriers...
...some panelists were afraid that showing the flag would hurt, not help, the U.S. and its true friends. Bill felt that "we have an excellent chance in Iran-unless, of course, we send some aircraft carriers storming over there." In Bill's mind, any attempt by the U.S. to form an old-fashioned mutual defense alliance-"Baghdad Pact II, CENTO n, something like that"-would also work against the U.S. Such a step, warned Bill, "would certainly force the Iranians into the hands of the Soviets...
Other forces, meanwhile, hovered warily at sea within electronic range of the battlefronts. The Soviet Union reportedly sent a second missile-armed destroyer from Vladivostok to join the squadron of 13 Soviet ships already cruising near Viet Nam. A U.S. aircraft carrier left the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines to join a Seventh Fleet task force in the South China Sea. Moscow stepped up its resupply airlift to Viet Nam -in plain view of Holtzman and Evans at the Hanoi airport, as it happened-and was reported to have sent senior Soviet military officers to the Vietnamese capital...
DIED. Henrich Focke, 88, German aircraft designer who helped develop the helicopter; in Bremen. Inspired by the drawings of Michelangelo, Focke in the mid-1930s built the FW-61, the first helicopter to receive an international certificate of airworthiness. Unsympathetic to the Nazi regime, Focke was removed from his company (Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG) before World War II and thus had no part in the production of the firm's famed fighter-bomber, the FW-190. He continued to design aircraft in France, Britain and Brazil, returning to his native country...
Rondle concedes that his bacterial "bombs" are still only theoretical, yet he feels that they bear watching. Says he: "If cholera can be spread even only occasionally by effluent from aircraft, then close investigation should be made of the possibility of other bacteria and viruses being spread in a similar...