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...been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that is due to my people ... God and history will remember your judgment." Then, as he stepped down, he murmured the words that were to serve as an epitaph...
...more likely to let information out to tell their side of the story." Last week, Talbott noted, "was a classic case of negotiations becoming leakproof as all sides moved closer to agreement." In Jerusalem, Bureau Chief Donald Neff assessed the impending settlement's durability in talks with a hawk-to-dove spectrum of Israeli leaders...
...Israeli Hawk. In Washington, euphoric officials were defining pessimists as those who thought the chances of getting the long-sought agreement were only 98%; the optimists were 99.9% certain. In Jerusalem, which feels that it is being pressured into giving up more than it wants to, officials were less sanguine; but they nonetheless put chances of success at perhaps 80%. "Henry has done it," sighed one Israeli hawk. "He's got us to give up everything we refused to give up in March and more. The deal is as good as signed, sealed and delivered. Only...
Prime Battle. In foreign affairs, Administration head counters detected so much congressional opposition to a Ford proposal to sell Hawk ground-to-air missiles to Jordan that the White House prudently withdrew the plan. The House overwhelmingly approved a $31.1 billion appropriation for military weapons, including such controversial Administration projects as the B-1 bomber and a nuclear strike cruiser, but the Senate refused to agree; a joint conference committee will reconsider the issue in September...
...taken into custody and detained at an old British army camp. But Mills appears to have been successful in persuading the U.S. consul general to allow his charges to fly on to Guam, even offering to pay their fares. "I'll buy the tickets if I have to hawk my left ear." The refugees probably will be released from the camp this week. In the meantime, Mills and Swissair have kept up their hopes. The airline has supplied food and clothes, and Mills acts as the group's personal legal counsel, moral overseer and English teacher...