Word: phantomed
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...Meir, flanked by Israeli security guards and appearing unusually solemn, arrived in the U.S. on two vital missions. First, she wanted to negotiate a long-term package of military and economic aid. Her military shopping list included sophisticated electronic equipment and Phantom jets that would partially offset Israel's loss of advantage at the Suez front caused by the forward deployment of the Soviet missiles. The economic proposals mainly involved long-term credits to a nation that spends almost 30% of its gross national product on defense, more than three times what the U.S. allocates...
...Phantom Decision. Even before she left home, Mrs. Meir was able to scratch half an item off her list. The Israeli air force, which has lost nine of the 50 U.S. Phantom jet fighter-bombers bought during the Johnson Administration, has asked for 25 more. Last week the Pentagon leaked the news that Israel would be allowed to buy 16 or 18 additional Phantoms. The Arabs, who regard the highly effective Phantoms as the symbol of U.S. "imperialism" in the Middle East, were predictably angry. The Egyptians accused the U.S. of undermining the cease-fire agreement by causing "military escalation...
While Israeli Phantom fighter-bombers remain confined to the other side of the Suez Canal, the Soviets and Egyptians have installed a vast complex of radar-directed antiaircraft missiles and artillery behind the cease-fire zone. The actual count is not known, but American officers concede that the number of missiles is "in the hundreds, but less than 1,000." There is also evidence that some of the missile batteries are already being fortified with concrete revetments, rendering them less vulnerable to bombing attacks. Furthermore, in order to confuse Israeli intelligence analysts, Soviets and Egyptians have bulldozed scores of dummy...
...growing stronger, fed both by volunteers and prisoners. In less than three weeks, I had seen scores of Khmer soldiers with Sihanouk badges pinned to their chests. Wherever I had gone, there had been Khmers guiding the Vietnamese and in turn being trained by them. This was no phantom army. A civil war was building...
...drawings, the desolate Castilian plains of his childhood serve as a stark backdrop for phantom figures hovering on the landscape. His sculpture frequently shows a more whimsical turn, with animals and even inanimate objects eloquently taking on human personalities, as in "Bull" or "The Root Hunter." Stylistically, Sanchez is obviously of the generation of Dali, Miro and Picasso-but with a small difference. Far more than his contemporaries, he kept a firm foot, however far away he was, on the good Spanish earth...