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...that may well have roused Sadat's ire beyond control, occurred at a dinner given by Begin for his Egyptian and American guests. Both the Israelis and the Egytians had privately agreed in advance that they would leave polemics aside for this occasion. The U.S. delegation?but not the Egyptians???were warned in advance that Begin might deliver a tough toast, and he most certainly did. His ten-minute speech turned into a near tirade as he insisted that Israel would not go back to the "fragile, breakable, aggression-provoking and bloodshed-causing lines preceding the fifth of June...
Meanwhile, on the Arab side, the Syrians have added new squadrons of advanced Russian-made MiG-23 fighters, and even the Egyptians???despite the loss of Soviet supplies since Cairo-Moscow relations cooled?have managed to get quantities of the highly mobile SA-7 Strela, one of the world's most effective antiaircraft missiles...
...Owings predict: "We are going to reach the point where environment planning will be the supreme thing in this country. It will be the equivalent of the railroad and highway booms. Then perhaps we can change and begin to build as did the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, the Egyptians???begin to build a real environment that is a lasting investment rather than something to be destroyed...
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