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Other Russians with the same sort of quasi-official authority have been making similar soundings in other capitals recently. In Washington, the correspondent for Israel's influential newspaper Ha'aretz has suddenly become the lunch companion most in demand among Soviet journalists. Around the table, the conversation turns inevitably to the same subject: the chances of resuming diplomatic relations, which were severed by Moscow at the climax of the 1967 Middle East War. To calm Russia's Arab allies, Soviet officials at the United Nations denied last week that any soundings were being made at all. Actually...
Amos Elon is a columnist for the distinguished Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. He went to Israel when he was only two, but he was born in Vienna, educated in England as well as Israel, and as a foreign correspondent lived in Washington, Bonn and Warsaw. He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"-and extremely important-"for one man to understand the nationalism of another." As such, Elon is a tough assessor of his own visions...
...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu emphatically insisted. The Laotian invasion, Lam Son 719, had not ended in "defeat, disorder, disaster." Sitting on some ammunition boxes among the pine trees of the cemetery at Dong Ha, an ARVN base seven miles south of the Demilitarized Zone, Thieu told newsmen and South Vietnamese troops that Laos was, in fact, "the biggest victory ever...
Since the airfield came under regular shelling attacks, most of the helicopters.used to support the Laos operation have been flown to Dong Ha, Quang Tri, and other rear bases...
When Astronaut Alan B. Shepard carried the game of golf to new heights last month, he claimed one of his private moon shots-unhindered by any air or much gravity-went "miles and miles." Ha! says Dr. Gordon Swann of the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied the photographs and sees a ball about 20 yards from the tee-off point. "Around the moon-plus 20 yards," cracks Shepard. But the ball in the photo was not the "miles-and-miles" shot anyway, he adds; that one, he re-estimates, went about 400 yards-"not bad for a six-iron...