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Nixon's action reflected deep U.S. displeasure with the Soviets over a number of issues. Washington remains disturbed by Russia's role in sneaking missiles into the cease-fire zone along the Suez Canal. The U.S. is also disappointed that Moscow has refused to exert pressure on North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course...
...declaring that three years of quiet diplomacy had failed, "due to Israel's insistence on expansion on the one hand, and the support it receives from the U.S. on the other." Foreign Minister Abba Eban again called on Cairo to "rectify" the uneasy situation along the Suez Canal by pulling back all or most of the missiles that the Egyptians, in violation of agreements, have moved into the area since the cease-fire began in August...
Belli told 200 people at the Harvard Law School Forum in Ames Courtroom that "We all come from the vaginal canal but after we become aware of it, it becomes a taboo subject...
...most serious of Moscow's dubious tactics was the Soviet-directed emplacement of a vast antiaircraft missile system on the west side of the Suez Canal. Soviet diplomats verbally approved the Rogers plan, which specifically prohibited new military buildups in a 32-mile-wide zone on either bank of the canal. Nevertheless, ever since the standstill went into effect at midnight Cairo time on Aug. 7, the Soviets and Egyptians have been installing new antiaircraft missiles there...
...that the SAMs now have theoretical command of the air space behind Israel's Bar-Lev Line on the Suez's east bank. If hostilities resume and Egyptian guns again pound the Israeli fortifications, the SAMs could exact a heavy toll from Israeli fighter-bombers crossing the Canal to silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least 15 of the sites house highly sophisticated SA-3s, which are manned by Russians, the Israelis estimate that as many as 3,000 to 4,000 Soviet technicians are stationed within the standstill zone. The SAMs, which constitute one of the greatest antiaircraft...