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Nightly Blackout. In contrast to gloom in Israel jubilation swept Arab cities. Everywhere Arab newspapers carried pictures of Israeli prisoners and the wreckage of vaunted Phantom jets. Al-Ahram Editor Hassanein Heikal quoted Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Vladimir Vinogradov as saying: "I have experienced sweet and bitter days, but this is the prime of my career in Egypt...
...probably insoluble -problem upon U.S. diplomacy: how to maintain a lifeline of aid to Israel while avoiding even deeper alienation of the Arab world and growing conflict with Russia. The Administration was already under pressure to step up its aid. Senator Henry Jackson had already urged the delivery of Phantom jets and other arms to Israel. Failing this, said Jackson, Kissinger should explain why the U.S. was "withholding the means of self-defense from a friend at war." Actually, given restraint on both sides, such aid need not jeopardize relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union: by joint agreement...
...even without impoundment, there is looming over the court a phantom docket of cases that have not yet been formally presented to the Justices but almost certainly will be. And all involve challenges to presidential powers. Unlike the neutral result of the action on the Georgia impoundment suit, these other cases will come up with lower-court rulings that will stand if the Supreme Court declines to review...
...Baltimore Orioles' Chuck Thompson was the radio phantom of my boyhood, and even Chuck would delay his account sometimes. In the hiatus between crack of bat and disappearing home run, Chuck was ruminating. Only when he was ready would he ejaculate, "Go to war, Miss Agnes." (While my point is correct, this is an exaggeration. Thompson reserved that homespun judgement for only the most momentous occasions, like back-to-back homeruns by the Robinson boys...
...United States has mounted an emergency program to resupply Israel with F4 Phantom jets, tanks, and other war material. U.S. officials said yesterday in Washington that American transport planes are delivering 700-800 tons of equipment a day. Officials also said the Soviet Union is resupplying the Arab nations at about the same rate...