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...along the 70-mile front, they opened up with a sustained barrage, promptly answered in kind by the Israelis. At a time when a settlement in the Middle East is much on the minds of the leaders of the U.S., Russia and Western Europe, last week's sudden flare-up of violence seemed even more than usually to fit Clausewitz's definition of war as "continuation of diplomacy by other means." It was equally ominous that for four days Arabs and Israelis were once again doing battle in the heaviest exchange of artillery fire since their...
...warnings served chiefly to illustrate the fact that violence has a momentum of its own, though many suspected that the sudden flare-up had primarily a diplomatic purpose. Just before the exchanges, Nasser's personal representative, Mahmoud Fawzi, showed up in London and Paris, pressing the argument that unless Israel withdraws at least partially from the canal, the Arabs will consider themselves forced to fight another round. In the Israeli view, as Foreign Minister Abba Eban put it, Nasser simply staged the barrage "to cause panic on an international scale" at a time when the Nixon Administration is considering...
...early 1960s, however, trouble began to flare in the northeast. "Since June 1962," notes a Soviet Foreign Ministry official, Mikhail S. Kapitsa, "provocations on the borders of the U.S.S.R. have become systematic." For their part, the Chinese claim that in the past two years alone, Soviet border guards intruded onto Chen Pao 16 times. According to Peking, nearby Chiliching and Kapotzu islands have also suffered such intrusions "on many occasions." The Chinese also charge that Soviet aircraft frequently violate their airspace. In the past three years, Moscow has built up its strength along its Asian borders to an estimated...
...Polaris snowmobile, was among the first drivers to arrive in Fairbanks, but he got lost in the dense ice fog. Officials at the finish line, who could hear his machine growling aimlessly around the side streets, finally sent out a runner to try to guide him home with a flare. Another contestant gone astray startled onlookers by barreling across the finish line from the opposite direction...
...wake of the latest flare-up in the Middle East, occasioned by the Arab terrorist attack on an El Al plane in Athens and Israel's reprisal raid on Beirut airport, the Soviet Union last week stepped up its latest diplomatic offensive. Its aim: a four-power agreement among the U.S., Russia, Britain and France on a peace package to offer to the Middle East's antagonists...