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...time Kissinger's entourage left Tunis for Cairo, apprehension was almost palpable if only because the airport serving the Egyptian capital was near the combat zone. But the midnight landing came off without a hitch, and Kissinger was engulfed in an excited crush of photographers. Security officers finally jammed him into a waiting limousine and whisked him to the palatial presidential suite at the Nile Hilton...
...days ahead, Israel faced fateful decisions and fierce fighting. Despite the heavy casualties to be expected from an attempt to crush the Arab units on the northern front and rout the Egyptians from the Sinai, and with no clear military necessity to do so, Israel may feel it can do no less. As long as the Egyptians remained on the east bank of the canal, Israel faced the threat of fighting long into the future. It also had to worry whether the Arabs would misinterpret an Israeli decision not to drive the Egyptians from the Sinai. The Arabs could conclude...
King Bhumibel Adulyadej apparently persuaded the old regime's leaders to leave the country and warned them that they would turn Bangkok into a slaughterhouse if they brought additional troops to the capital to crush the revolt...
...could become crowded, because the developer, Carolina Caribbean Corp., plans to put about 8,500 single-family homes and 1,500 condominium units on its 7,200 acres. But the firm has set up its own water company, shopping center and police and volunteer fire departments to accommodate the crush...
McDonald's patrons put it more simply. To them, a McDonald's is a clean, well-lighted place, where they will be served quickly and courteously. Customer waits rarely exceed five minutes, even at the height of the lunch-hour crush; the company is introducing computerized, diode-display order-taking machines to cut delays even further...