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President Saakashvili has noted that both his minister responsible for negotiations over South Ossetia (Yakobashvili) and his Defense Minister, Davit Kezerashvili, had lived in Israel before moving to post-Soviet Georgia. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the Georgian leader this week enthused that in Tbilisi, "both war and peace are in the hands of Israeli Jews." Working through the Georgian Defense Ministry (and with the approval of its Israeli counterpart), Israeli companies are reported to have supplied the Georgians with pilotless drones, night-vision equipment, anti-aircraft equipment, shells, rockets and various electronic systems. Even more important than equipment...
...Welin Davit & Boat has used its experience in building Navy lifeboats to turn out a new unsinkable, all-steel 26-ft. pleasure cruiser. Built with two large steel air tanks under its cockpit deck, it stays afloat and can run on its own power even when full of water. Its engine is sealed in a watertight compartment with a snorkel-type exhaust. Price: $7,000, about $1,000 more than sinkable boats of similar design...
...submarine, crippled, was still dangerous, and its deck guns were firing. On the Spencer's bridge a radioman dropped, clutching his belly. The ship's starboard davit had been smashed by a shell that sprayed fragments of steel over bridge, starboard passage and deck. Two men fell headlong in the passage, others reeled back from their posts...
With two names added to the list of nominees, J. Thomas Axon '44 and Donald J. Davit '44 for the Class Day Committee, the Class of 1944 will go to the polls today and tomorrow for their second election of officers this fall...
...equipment for the Liberty ships last Aug. 4, and Globe American got a $1,500,000 contract for 1,248 of them. Globe American started boat production on Dec. 1. As prime contractor, it "co-contracted" 200 boats to Neptune Supply Co. of New Orleans, 304 to Imperial Lifeboat & Davit Co. of New York, kept 744 for Kokomo...