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...predecessors, will seem less significant a decade hence. Johnson, at least, is confident of history's favorable verdict, and will spend his remaining years buttressing his record. He talks of the personal papers that are flowing to Texas by the truckload. "I've got 31 million pages of material," he says, "more than any President in history." To the last, Johnson deals in superlatives. "People will look back on these five years as some of the most important in the nation's history," he insists. Of that, at least, there can be little doubt...
...embargo is unlikely to have much practical impact on Israel, despite that country's heavy investment in French arms, amounting to nearly $600 million over the past decade. Ever since De Gaulle stopped delivery of 50 Mirage fighters as a sign of his displeasure during the Six-Day War, Israel has been prudently making other arrangements. To compensate for the embargoed aircraft Israel has ordered from the U.S. 50 F-4 Phantoms, scheduled for delivery late this year...
...away without cost from its commando raid on Beirut airport. Through Lloyd's of London, Israeli insurance firms were underwriters for $50,000 worth of policies held by Middle East Airlines on planes that were destroyed. Thus, ironically, Israel will pay part of the nearly $18 million that MEA will collect. It is Lebanon's only cause for cheer. For the reverberations from the raid brought an internal crisis to the tiny nation last week, along with the prospect of being drawn against its will into the whirlpool of Middle East hostilities...
...majority of Beirut businessmen. "We will smash ourselves," says a chain-store manager. "We must not commit suicide. It is best for us and for all the Arabs to have this noninvolved outpost." Many Lebanese agree, on the practical ground that a draft would cost at least $30 million. Editorialized the Beirut Star: "Lebanon realizes that Israel's military might is much stronger than her own. It would take a great deal of money to improve on the situation. Since 1943, we have followed a policy of letting the big powers protect us. Why not in the future...
...Great Tree. His open-door economic policies have brought relative progress to Liberia. Foreign investment now amounts to nearly $750 million-mostly in iron ore, rubber and commercial banking. Tubman checks economic performance continually: an old law still on the books has it that all government expenditures of more than $200 must be approved by the President, and the President spends hours every week poring over the ledgers. As a result, important government work tends to be held...