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...Since the October war, Syria has been rearmed by the Soviets even beyond its prewar strength, at a cost of $2 billion. Predictably, the result has been to bring Syria closer to the Soviet orbit and render it the most belligerent of the Arab confrontation countries...
...throw back such a force, the Israeli army in Sinai has switched tactics. There are no more forts like those that dotted the prewar Bar Lev Line along the canal. "We've changed our style," says one army commander. "We're basing our defense now on armor, mechanized troops and self-propelled guns that would move quickly to any trouble spot." Israeli armor is on constant alert. About the only time the engines of the 155-mm. and 175-mm. self-propelled gun carriers are turned off is when Soviet spy satellites are about to pass overhead...
...away all the time anyway," W.H. Auden once pointed out. "He has no important secrets.'' Certainly the secrets in this poet's heart were well known by the time he died two falls ago. Auden's evolution from anger to acceptance, from wrathful condemnation of prewar society ("that confabulation of weasels at the next table") to rueful contemplation of self, was one of the best articulated literary odysseys ever taken...
...Federal commander, C.C. Washburn, and proudly displayed it as a trophy. Forrest gallantly returned the uniform to Washburn under a flag of truce. Some weeks later, also under a flag of truce, Washburn sent Forrest a fine gray uniform made to measure by the cavalryman's own prewar Memphis tailor. As Jefferson Davis' special train left Richmond, abandoning the city to the Yankees, Foote writes, it was followed by others bearing "the marvelous and incongruous debris of the wreck of the Confederate capital." As one young lieutenant observed, "There were very few women on these trains, but among...
After the outbreak of the October war, the U.S. and the Soviet Union launched massive armadas to resupply their allies in the Middle East. The military shipments continue. Today both sides have not only replaced their losses but added to their prewar inventories. By some estimates, Israel and Syria, the two likeliest protagonists in any new shooting war, are at least one-third again as strong as they were when fighting erupted last year. If fighting should break out in the near future, the score sheet would be as follows...