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...coming up in the fall, government leaders painstakingly dissociated themselves from any responsibility for what was finally described as a "military decision" to shoot down the plane. In fact, the young but experienced Phantom pilots had radioed for instructions before each move. At a weekend press conference in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan carefully separated himself from the events in Sinai. He did say, however, that his government would welcome an investigation of the incident and suggested that a "hot line" be set up between Egypt and Israel as a means of preventing such accidents in the future...
Israeli pilots who took part in the shooting appeared at a press conference in Tel Aviv; they were identified only as "Y" and "S." They claimed that they had flown to within 15 ft. of the Libyan jet, indicating by thumb signals that Bourges should descend and land at Bir Gifgafa airbase in Sinai. Bourges, they said, made the proper response by lowering his landing gear, and his altitude gradually dropped from 15,000 ft. to 1,500 ft. But he also indicated by hand signals that he was turning west in the direction of Cairo. When he picked...
...Ruth Dayan does not seem bitter. She insists that love between them died long before 1971, and that she sought a divorce primarily to gain her freedom. "It just wasn't worth it any more," she said in Tel Aviv last week. "It was like living in chains. If I were still his wife, there would be six guards here. Now I can drive my car to the Gaza Strip or wherever I want in freedom." One thing she does still fault Dayan on, though, is his choice of girlfriends: "It's too bad he has such...
...cordoned off from fedayeen attacks by Lebanon, Jordan and the Sinai that direct assaults on "the enemy" are no longer possible. "We know our generation will not reach the sea," he said. Therefore Palestinians must hit Israelis abroad. "We don't have to occupy Tel Aviv to make our point," said lyad. "It's sufficient to keep scoring. We should fight the enemy anywhere in the world because every country bears the guilt for Palestine...
...tourist industry that is expected to develop from the sandy beaches nearby and the warm, rain-free skies overhead during nine months of the year. Pithat Rafah even has the beginnings of a chamber of commerce: boosters are already bragging that the climate is much nicer than Tel Aviv...