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...fighting from escalating to the point where it would affect a vital international interest. Sixty percent of the world's oil flows through the strait, and its cutoff would leave homes without heating oil and factories without fuel throughout the western world. Oil supplies are not a mere "phantom" of national security. The United States has only a six-week emergency supply of oil, and it would certainly take much longer for alternative energy sources and conservation to eliminate the shortage that blockage of the Strait would entail...
...Israeli Phantom jets screeched over the Litani River, pummeling Palestinian artillery positions with bombs and rockets. Strike troops assaulted 18 different guerrilla positions. In a dramatic foray against Beaufort Castle, once a Crusaders' stronghold, Israeli attackers and Palestinian defenders engaged in vicious hand-to-hand combat. One artillery barrage alone, against Palestinian encampments in the town of Nabatiye, dropped an estimated 2,500 shells. Said a survivor: "They came down on us like rain...
...merger, became McDonnell Douglas, one of the nation's largest defense contractors; following a stroke; in St. Louis. "Old Mac," who called himself a "practicing Scotsman," guided his firm in the 1950s and '60s to manufacture the Mercury and Gemini Space Capsules and F-4 Phantom II fighters used in Viet Nam. In the late 1970s, however, design flaws in the Douglas group's DC-10 commercial jets were blamed for several crashes, precipitating lawsuits and costly losses of civilian and military contracts...
...police theorized that the murderer had to be someone who was familiar with the Met's backstage maze of corridors, dressing rooms, stairways and elevator shafts, in which Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera would feel very much at home. Further, said the officers, the killer probably was a Met employee, since he managed to get by guards at the door and pass unchallenged among the 250 dancers, musicians and stagehands who were present for the performance...
...tight formation, the twelve Phantom F-4E jets streaked in low over the Pyramids of Giza, then banked in a sharp descent to land at Cairo West airbase. After a 13-hr, flight from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, the American fighters were joining a sister squadron of 35 Egyptian Phantoms for three months of joint maneuvers. The training exercises, first to be held by American forces in the Middle East in several years, were a striking symbol of Egypt's emergence as a vital partner of the U.S. in the region...