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DAYAN SHUTTLE A MYSTERY, cried London's Daily Telegraph. Le Monde speculated on LES MYSTÉRIEUX DÉ-PLACEMENTS DE M. DAYAN. What prompted such puzzled headlines were some sudden and inexplicable changes in the flight plans of Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Shortly before he was scheduled to fly from Brussels to New York, Dayan dropped out of sight. He surfaced next day and took an El Al flight from Paris back to Israel, where he conferred briefly with Premier Menachem Begin. In Tel Aviv, Dayan deviated from his schedule once more: instead of taking...
Even after her liberation, the ordeal of Mme. Claustre continued to rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...
Moreover, they charge that Israel is selling this modified equipment to third nations, including certain countries with which U.S. companies are barred by law from doing business. One case was the purchase by Honduras last year of eight French-built Mystère fighters, which the Israelis had equipped with U.S. jet engines. A more serious complaint comes from Raytheon Co., which accuses the Israelis of scavenging an air-to-air missile called Shafrir out of Raytheon's Sidewinder-specifically, by stealing Sidewinder's infra-red guidance system -and then selling it to Chile...
...interview with TIME's Donald Neff and David Halevy in Tel Aviv last week, Defense Minister Shimon Peres insisted that Israel's arms practices were entirely proper. The Mystère sale to Honduras was an honest mistake, he claimed. Israel had paid cash for the engines, the planes were obsolete, and no one expected the U.S. to protest such a sale. The Shafrir, he explained, was developed and used in combat three years before Israel saw its first Sidewinder. "The only American piece of equipment in the Shafrir is a small battery that...
...about soccer, vacations, volcanoes and happy old age. The Grand Prix Litteraire des Vins du Périgord de la Région de Bergerac goes to the best literary celebration of the glories of Perigord wine. First prize: half a barrel of Périgord wine. The Prix Mystère et Cognac, which was unfortunately abolished this year, traditionally went to the best detective novel whose hero drank cognac. There are even awards for losers. The coveted Prix Cazes goes to a writer who has never won any other prize...