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...Spain is buying more than $200 million worth of the U.S.'s F-4 Mach 2, long-range Phantom fighter-bombers...
...battle tank (estimated exports: 14,500), AK-47 combat rifle (225,000), SA-2 ground-to-air missile (8,000) and MIG-21 fighter-bomb er (1,900); the U.S.'s Sidewinder air-to-air missile (12,000), CH-47 Chinook helicopter (309), F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber (1,100), C-130 Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber (1,500), A-4 Skyhawk attack fighter (460) and TOW anti-tank missile (12,500); France's Exocet antiship missile (about 800 sold), AMX-30 battle tank (1,000) and Mirage III fighter-bomber (700); Israel's Gabriel...
...sabotage. The most serious blows are anticipated not in the oilfields themselves but on the complicated loading docks on the Gulf. To overcome any destruction of facilities, U.S. engineers would arrive with piping and other equipment. Other guerrilla activity, in a sandy area of high visibility for patrolling Phantom jets, is expected to be minimal and easily surmountable. The plan also assumes that the Soviet Union would offer no military opposition to the takeover, but might move its forces into neighboring Iraq in a show of force. The Soviets, in the view of the Joint Chiefs, have neither the desire...
...Taffeta Phantom. They are out of the familiar Rauschenberg image bank again, part random and part (one suspects) autobiographical: newspaper fragments, comic cutouts, a Cessna, a balloon, an octopus, buckets, a hand gripping a squeegee, an ostrich...
...seems a long way from the declamatory harshness of his old combine paintings, but in fact, it pertains to a continuous theme of Rauschenberg's: ghost images, traces. The white paintings were made white to accept passing shadows. The De Kooning drawing was not erased to blank: a phantom of it stays on the paper. Rauschenberg's illustrations to Dante's Infer no (1960) were pale transfers from newsprint. But the Hoarfrost prints extend Rauschenberg's delight in faintness to a ravishing lyricism: because their constituent images are so familiar, clear-cut and even brassy...