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...fight was actually precipitated two weeks ago, when Israeli gunners shot down an Egyptian Sukhoi 7 reconnaissance plane because, they said, it had flown over Israel's fortified Bar-Lev Line on the canal's east bank. Egypt retaliated by sending SAM missiles aloft to knock down an aging SA-2 transport, which Israel said was flying several miles away from the canal. Seven men were killed when the Stratocruiser crashed in the Sinai desert, 15 miles from the waterway. Israeli Phantoms avenged them by raking Egyptian positions near the west bank with rockets. The Egyptians fired back...
Over the next two hours, the shortwave Sherlock continued to monitor and tape what he heard. The thieves in the vault were apparently worried that the fumes from their heavy-duty cutting torches would alert security guards, and they wanted to knock off for the night. Said one of the gang: "Look, the place is filled with fumes where we was cutting. And if the security come in and smell the fumes, we are all going to take stoppo and none of us have got nothing. Whereas this way we have all got 300 grand to cut up when...
Coup Attempt. The U.S. had hoped that it would be obvious to the South Vietnamese that a fair and vigorously contested election would knock down Hanoi's persistent charge that the Saigon government is a puppet of Washington. A willingness to allow diverse elements to compete for governmental power might also have convinced Hanoi that the time had come to negotiate seriously for a peace settlement. But as Thieu reaches for greater power by grasping all available governmental levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall...
...even more business than Juarez did at its apogee. What they need, they say, is proper promotion, and the Dominican Republic has already snared its first celebrity. Actor Elliott Gould flashed through the court last month to dissolve his marriage to Barbra Streisand. "I don't want to knock Mexico," says Espinosa, "but the system had become too mechanical." When he leads his flock into the marbled courthouse, Espinosa carefully points out the crucifix in the court signifying, he says, "the presence...
Today and the News compete frenetically with each other, adjusting their play of various stories from one edition to the next to upstage, knock down or merely copy the opposition. Occasionally, says a Today staffer, "We've dropped our main story to pick up the Daily News lead story, and we've found in the second edition that they have picked up the story that we have dropped and dropped the story that we have picked up. It's fantastic." On a recent day, Today's first edition front-paged HUNT TWO IN SUBURBAN CRIME SPREE...