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...community, which had been shown the pictures the week before. The resulting dispute stemmed in part from the substantial differences in the ways the U.S. and Israel gather and evaluate their intelligence. To monitor the Suez Canal front, the Israelis rely chiefly on high-speed passes by camera-carrying Phantoms during the daytime. At night, the mainstay of Israeli intelligence is a chain of electronic listening posts in the Sinai hills near the canal. But both these methods have glaring weaknesses: the Phantom pictures are often blurred, and the electronic sensors, which monitor Egyptian and Soviet radar and radio transmissions...
...Phantom Figures. Introduced to the Madrid art world by Uruguayan Painter Rafael Barradas, Sanchez became the co-founder with Painter Benjamin Palencia of the Vallecas school, which sought to escape from academicism and create a new kind of national art based on themes and images from Spanish tradition and folklore. Even while he lived as an exile in Russia, his sculpture, primarily in wood and sheet iron, remained distinctly Iberian in spirit. "He saw art in everything," his widow Clara recently recalled. "And once he had seen it, everything became a work of art. It all served his purpose-clay...
...Saragossa, Moron and Torrejón) and a Polaris submarine and Mediterranean fleet-support base at Rota. The bases are manned by 10,000 U.S. servicemen. In return, the U.S. will provide Franco with at least $300 million worth of military aid, including 36 phased-out F-4C Phantom jet fighter-bombers...
...thought the problem "insoluble." For a time, Rogers' principal concern seemed to be the military balance of power that the U.S. relied upon after Nasser repudiated an earlier cease-fire proposal in 1969. Shortly before leaving office, Lyndon Johnson had leveled the balance by selling Israel 50 Phantom jets. These took the place of French Mirages, which Charles de Gaulle withheld from Israel after...
...Arabists. They cabled or memoed dire forecasts of rioting, danger to American lives and property, and an end to relations with moderate Arab governments if the U.S. approved additional jet-plane sales to Israel. They also pointed out that Egypt and the Soviet Union, in fighting off Phantom raids over Cairo, were employing defensive measures...