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...exchange for the 16 Israeli P.O.W.s, mostly downed pilots, held by the Arabs. In money terms, Israel estimated that the war cost it only $100 million, against $2 billion for the Arabs. The Israelis captured several times their own outlay's worth of Arab equipment. Included in the haul are two Soviet SAM missiles and their sites, more than 200 Russian tanks in mint condition, and uncounted thousands of weapons and vehicles-all abandoned by fleeing troops...
...near panic when saboteurs blew up a Shell Oil storage tank several miles away. In the guttering glare of flames that shot hundreds of feet into the air, there was fear that Israeli bombers might strike, but husbands calmed wives, wives calmed children and children calmed dogs. Teen-agers hauled out guitars and sang folk songs until Lebanese buses arrived to haul the evacuees to the Beirut airport...
Perhaps a rush on herring would take the pressure off the menhaden. At worst, the species will go the way of the West Coast sardine, which in 1936 supplied a haul of nearly 800,000 tons-but has since dwindled to about...
...protest and confrontation--marches, pickets and sit-ins--to those of organization and resistance. Although the students will continue to utilize dramatic, "one-shot" incidents of protest to attract publicity and membership, they are shifting, as national vice president, Carl Davidson, puts it, "to dig in for the long haul, to become full-time, radical, sustained, relevant." Marches, says a Chicago SDSer, "are just not enough. They won't stop this war. More important, they won't stop the military industrial complex, the powerful institutions that decide the fate of people in this country .... We must do more than marching...
...used by other jets. At cruising altitude, one of the three jet engines can be throttled back to idling position and virtually closed down without contributing extra drag, thus saving fuel. For all of these reasons, U.S. airline executives believe that the little jet is designed for short-haul work in Africa, Latin America and the Far East, a market that should be good for plenty of YAKs...