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"What do we want to do with the Israelis?" cried Republican Jacob Javits of New York. "Sap their vitality? Sap their morale? Cut the legs out from under them?" Replied Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri: "Better that we provide a means for the Saudis to defend [their oil] themselves than...
Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who were already considering an increased Israeli allotment as a "sweetener," apparently took the cue. On Tuesday Vance offered to allot 20 more F-15s (worth $16 million each) to Israel, in exchange for approval of the Saudi deal. This moved New York...
But suddenly, on Wednesday afternoon, Chairman-to-Be Church seemed to lose his nerve. Apparently he believed that the White House moves would bring a sizable majority of the committee around to endorsing the sales. They did not; despite his favorable comments earlier, New York's Javits, for example...
New York's Republican Senator, Jacob Javits, said he thought the President was making a mistake in not calling for both Taft-Hartley and a Government seizure of the mines. The miners had said they would return to work immediately if the Government took over, but Carter apparently regarded...
Javits' argument is increasingly accepted. The canal, too narrow for the largest aircraft carriers and supertankers, is no longer the maritime lifeline it once was. On the contrary, it is widely regarded in Latin America as an anachronistic relic of the colonialist era-and an easy target for nationalist...