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...troops last week began scouring the border areas northwest of Saigon for signs of three North Vietnamese divisions known to be poised just inside Cambodia. Meanwhile, the air war continues. B-52 bombers have been striking Communist concentrations in the Highlands. Over North Viet Nam, a U.S. F-4 Phantom jet accounted for the first "kill" of an enemy MIG-21 in 22 months, but Communist gunners also downed two American F-4s-bringing to 13 the total of planes lost since mid-December...
...Shams' 38,000 students rapidly took part in teach-ins. Before long, protests spread across town to Cairo University, where vocal students criticized the government's waste, political inaction and willingness to let American oil companies operate in Egypt even as the U.S. delivers additional Phantom jets to Israel...
That at least would prove he exists. For today, Howard Hughes is surrounded by such mystification that some entertain the ultimate theory: he is dead, a phantom evoked and impersonated by a band of conspirators in order to keep his holdings together. If nothing else, this conjecture is an index of how the invisible and difficult man stirs fantasies...
...English word that both Arabs and Israelis instantly recognize is "Phantom." Meaning not ghost or specter, but the U.S.-built F-4 fighter-bomber, which has been the backbone of Israel's clearly superior air force since 1969. Considering the importance of the planes, Israelis should have been happier-and Arabs more furious -than they were after it was announced at year's end that the U.S. was prepared to resume shipment of F-4s to Israel...
...reason Israel might well be less adamant in the hotel talks-and the reason Arab capitals reacted to the Phantom announcement with what Washington considers relative restraint -is the procedure for Phantom deliveries...