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Indian anger at U.S. backing of Pakistan was compounded last week when the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise and a task force of destroyers and amphibious ships from the Seventh Fleet sailed into the Bay of Bengal. Although Soviet vessels were reported to be moving toward the area, word of the U.S. move touched off a storm of anti-American demonstrations. In Calcutta, angry protesters burned effigies of Richard Nixon and Yahya Khan. The Seventh Fleet action was justified by the Navy on the grounds that it might have to evacuate American civilians from Dacca. (As it turned out, most...
...addition, U.S. officials will contend that even if they did approve Israel's purchase of more Phantoms, the planes would be a long time coming off production lines. The fact is that if Washington wanted to, it could provide the planes almost immediately. Two years ago, a fleet of 50 Phantoms for Israel was put together out of allotments ticketed for the U.S. Air Force; the planes were hurriedly swabbed with the white and blue insignia of Israel and rushed across the Atlantic. Plainly the Administration is sidetracking the present request so as to pressure Israel into peace concessions...
...made no splash before Atlantic Monthly made some leftists frantic. And like as not, his fame will fleet, Leaving Herrnstein a secure professorial seat. Martin Fridson...
...between Europe and Asia inevitably makes it a scene of struggle among the superpowers. The Soviet Union, which has never given up trying to bring breakaway Yugoslavia back into the orthodox Communist fold, has an additional goal -a seaport on Yugoslavia's Dalmatian Coast for its big Mediterranean fleet. In a brilliant flanking tactic, China is showing an increasingly protective interest in Rumania and Yugoslavia; the object is to prevent the Soviets from moving freely against either country without having to fear Chinese retaliation against Mongolia and the eastern Soviet borders. The U.S. is also involved in the Balkans...
Architect Sherman Morss of Shepley, Bulfinch Richardson, and Abbott paid meticulous attention to details to make this floating cube the Rolls Royce of collegiate boating facilities The fully heated building has a committee protest and reception room, a complete shop that can handle all repairs necessary on the fleet a kitchen and complete bathroom facilities (including shower) for both men and women...