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Missiles at Aswan. Hoping to persuade Washington on that point, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban flew to the U.S. last week to renew a request for 25 Phantom jets and 100 Skyhawks. Premier Golda Meir requested the planes during her Washington visit last September, but President Nixon deferred action two months ago because, he said, Israel already had air superiority without them. Seeking to reverse that decision, Eban noted that as many as 250 Soviet pilots are flying late model MIG-21s in Egypt, and that the Russians have emplaced 25 advanced SAM missiles around the Aswan High...
...peopled with the oddest, the most chillingly funny characters: Horace, a gourmet-policeman, whose pièce de résistance is Rock Cornish hen; Lars Bang, a coachman out of a period print who hits and runs like a Mafia mobster; and there is even the Phantom of the Opera's Friend...
...coming importance of rocketry, he accurately predicted many current space-flight advances-much to the amusement of his Naval Academy roommate, who teased him, "Lovell, some day you're going to the moon." A skilled test pilot who helped develop the weapon system for the F-4H Phantom II jet fighter, Lovell suffered the greatest disappointment of his career when NASA failed to name him as one of its original Mercury astronauts in 1959. But he was chosen in the second batch in 1962, and he has since logged more hours in space (670, including the 143-hr, flight...
Differing Versions. According to Cairo, Israeli pilots flying U.S.-built Phantom jets bombed a schoolhouse near the Nile Delta, killing 30 pupils ranging in age from six to twelve years. Israel admitted the bombings, but the two sides differed greatly in their accounts of what had happened. The Egyptians escorted foreign newsmen to a hospital to view the dead, as well as 31 wounded children. But they declined to let the reporters see the school, insisting that the road leading to it was impassable. Cairo reported that the two-year-old school, situated in a region known as Bahr...
...they have a phantom to chase and this is not a phantom...