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Arab Buildup. On the eve of Sisco's trip, pro-Israel politicians in the U.S. have been spreading alarmist reports about a significant buildup of Arab airpower. The Egyptians, according to Washington estimates, have received 100 MIGs since last September, in addition to 80 MI-8 troop-carrying helicopters. Syria has got 30 MIGs, five Sukh017 fighter-bombers and 22 helicopters. All together, there are now nearly 600 Soviet-built planes in the area, some flown by Soviet pilots...
...mocked as Britain's "Bay of Piglets," and one war correspondent cabled Fleet Street from the battlefield: "I say, chaps, the natives are friendly." That was two years ago, when then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson sent a company of paratroopers to capture the tiny (35 sq. mi.) West Indies island of Anguilla, a onetime possession cutting loose its British apron strings. The islanders had tried and rejected a British-sponsored association with the neighboring and more economically advanced islands of St. Kitts and Nevis; now they wanted to return to their colonial status. The British would not hear...
...though, will retain 88 military installations on the 454-sq.-mi. island, including the huge Kadena Air Base, which is presently a major reconnaissance, support and transport base for the Indochina war. A high American military official on Okinawa said last week that although the U.S. will control only one-seventh of the land it formerly controlled under the treaty terms, "we will have 95% of what we had before. We are keeping those bases that are essential." Japan will take over 46 small U.S. installations, for which it will pay $320 million in compensation over the next five years...
...farm income. There have been sizable finds of uranium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, oil and natural gas. A huge bauxite mine is being developed in the remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. But the center of the expansion lies in Western Australia, which occupies 1,000,000 sq. mi. and has about as many residents. At Kalgoorlie, where Herbert Hoover once managed a gold mine, vast nickel strikes have revived long-dormant ghost towns. In the desolate Pilbara region, two railroads, two ports and two brand-new towns have sprung up in the past four years, and more than...
...artist in early 15th century Milan. Nearly all Michelino's work is lost, but most of what remains was recently bought by New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. It consists of a tiny (6¾ in. by 4¾ in.) prayerbook, containing 22 miniatures on vellum that Mi-chelino painted sometime around 1420. John Plummer, the Morgan's curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, compares his new treasure with such supreme achievements of manuscript painting as the Tres Riches Heures of the Due de Berry. Michelino's con-'emporaries in Milan could well have agreed...