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...believe it's helpful," said one Israeli diplomat in a guarded comment. With national elections coming up in the fall, government leaders painstakingly dissociated themselves from any responsibility for what was finally described as a "military decision" to shoot down the plane. In fact, the young but experienced Phantom pilots had radioed for instructions before each move. At a weekend press conference in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan carefully separated himself from the events in Sinai. He did say, however, that his government would welcome an investigation of the incident and suggested that a "hot line...
THERE is a phantom pain that endures even after the wound is repaired. Now that a cease-fire agreement has been signed, there is still a persistent wince in the American body politic -the feeling that somehow, somewhere, soldiers are still pulling triggers. In fact, given the fragility of the ceasefire, they well may be, but even if all shooting really stops, the idea of peace will take getting used to. After ten years, the Viet Nam War has become more than a national curse. It was also a national excuse...
When the ground began to heave beneath doomed Managua, Nicaragua (see THE WORLD), Howard Hughes was sound asleep in his hotel which promptly began to swoon. "Cool, so cool," as one aide put it, the phantom of high finance ducked out through falling debris and then spent his 67th birthday camping out in a nearby field. Looking for more comfortable surroundings, he summoned a private jet and flew off to London where he took over a whole floor of a hotel for $2,500 a day. A Hughes aide hinted, however, that the boss might soon emerge from this...
...Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, Random House...
...clearly some highly disturbing and unanswered questions about the Air Force's controversy-ridden plane. Although the F-111's overall safety record compares quite favorably with those of other tactical aircraft (only 28 accidents in its first 200,000 flight hours, compared with 73 for Phantom jets), its combat record is discouraging. In five years of noncombat flights in the U.S. and Europe, 20 F-111s have been totally destroyed, but in only twelve weeks of combat missions over Indochina in 1968 and 1972, seven have been lost. Of the four reported missing in the past...