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...letter to Brandeis, HUD's federal insurance administrator, George K. Bernstein, indicated that this may imperil future disorder-damage claims...
...Heights in Syria. Still, the situation might have been even worse. Originally, the State Department had been expected to announce last week that the U.S. would supply Israel with additional warplanes. But U.S. diplomats feared that the warplane announcement, even if it were accompanied by a peace initiative, would imperil the chances for a Middle East solution. American diplomats in Arab countries warned that anti-American riots would ensue that might serve as a pretext for Arab guerrillas to again attack, and perhaps even topple, King Hussein's shaky government in Jordan...
...Celebration. In some quarters, including the U.S. State Department, there is deep concern that prolonged ARVN involvement in Cambodia could eventually upset Vietnamization. The Communists, meanwhile, have yet to substantiate a related criticism−that the Cambodian operation will directly imperil South Viet Nam. Across South Viet Nam last week, the enemy did try to mount a special one-day "high point" with rocket and mortar attacks on 64 towns and outposts. But even with nearly 60,000 U.S. and ARVN troops off in Cambodia, the sputtering high added up to a very low-key celebration of Ho Chi Minn...
...these expressions of displeasure, Pompidou is likely to have the same set of answers. First of all, as he has said previously, France is irrevocably committed to Israel's rights of existence and security, and has done nothing that it believes will imperil either. He will no doubt point out that Libya could probably have purchased its jets in Moscow without having to agree to one important condition stipulated by Paris: that the planes cannot be used in any offensive action against Israel. Furthermore, Pompidou is convinced that no amount of arms rationing will successfully keep...
...missile program, which Nixon now wants to expand. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield opened fire last week by charging that it will cost "well beyond $50 billion" and asking: "Where the hell is it going to end?" Former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan warned that ABM expansion could imperil progress in arms-limitation talks with the Soviet Union and touch off an arms race at "enormous expense and danger...