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Another Israeli negotiator told TIME Correspondent David Halevy: "We're entering the minefield, but we have so far managed to avoid stepping on the mines." During lunch and dinner breaks, the soldiers compared notes on their respective military academies and swapped war stories. "The Egyptians talk mostly about the October War, and we talk about the Six-Day War," noted an Israeli wryly. When somebody raised the question of what kind of work old soldiers should go into after they retire, an Israeli and an Egyptian shouted almost simultaneously, "Export-import!" and the group broke into laughter...
...last week's drama of the dollar made clear, G. William Miller will be entering a political and economic minefield when he succeeds Arthur Burns as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board early next month. It will be largely up to Miller to make the tricky day-to-day decisions on when and how strongly to intervene in currency markets to keep the dollar from plunging too much lower. In that field, at least, the basic policy of intervening to stabilize the falling dollar has been set: but on domestic issues, the incoming chairman has no such clear guidelines...
...Lebanese battalions are now going through the last phase of their training prior to moving south. Two of them are mixed units of Muslims and Christians, while the third is entirely Christian. Says the commander, Brigadier Victor Khoury: "It will be like walking through a minefield. One false step and the whole damned thing blows...
...stop their citizens from escaping to the West. At one location, about 30 soldiers -guarded by other troops, in standard East German fashion-were sinking concrete pilings, stretching mesh wiring and installing self-firing explosives. Apparently the old system, consisting of two parallel mesh-wire fences with a minefield in front of each, was not considered deadly enough. Thus "improvements" are being made, at a cost of about $500,000 a mile...
...been completed along roughly one-sixth of the frontier, the first fence has been eliminated, while a deep, concrete-lined ditch has been added. It is intended to thwart would-be escapees trying to crash the border in cars or trucks. West of the ditch is a minefield, then a new close-meshed wire fence that begins 3 ft. underground (to prevent tunneling) and rises 10 ft. above the earth...