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...went to Moscow, partly in hope of convincing Brezhnev that the Soviet Union should resume large-scale arms shipments to Egypt. Since the end of the October war, the Soviets have poured massive supplies of arms into Syria, while Israel, thanks to the U.S., has more than replaced its matériel losses. Egypt, on the other hand, has been left without adequate replacements for its Russian-made arms. One condition Moscow sets for arms shipments: a return of Soviet advisers to Egypt...
...deadline for taking advantage of Ford's offer is Jan. 31, 1975. As mat ters now stand, his compromise solution to the problem of granting amnesty seems bound to end with the same sense of sour failure that marked so much of the long war in Viet...
Moreover, many contractors are now turning down military contracts in favor of sales to private companies; they find that commercial orders yield less paper work and better profits. Says Admiral Isaac Kidd, Chief of the Naval Matériel Command: "It is no longer a buyers' market where we could dictate through contracts...
...another severe problem is the drastic delay in deliveries that is being caused by inflation-breeding shortages of aluminum, steel and electronic print ed circuits. As a result, orders have backed up dramatically, leaving the Army short 1,857 tanks. To make mat ters worse, Secretary of State Kissinger has sold more than 1,000 tanks from U.S. inventories to Israel to build up that nation's inventories. The Army is planning to subsidize some capital expenditures of the Birdsboro Corp. of Birdsboro, Pa., because it is one of two remaining plants capable of casting turrets and hulls...
Parker became irritated at this point in the match, sensing a Harvard upset brewing with the match halfway over. The coach's jugular vein nearly jumped on to the mat as Dee was handling his matman...