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...became something of a legend-and today he is the last of that era's heroes still seeking to command. In England, LeMay concluded that too many of his B-17s were missing targets because they zigzagged away from antiaircraft fire. He led the next raid over Saint-Nazaire, directing his planes in a straight-line block formation through the flak. Next day he ordered his planes to take no more evasive actions on their final bombing runs. Losses went up, but so did the proficiency of his bombers. LeMay took similar risks in the Pacific. Assigned...
...Western observers. Nonetheless, the Yugoslavs are preparing for the worst. Tito, fearing a Soviet-inspired attempt on his life, has taken special security precautions. Throughout the country, bomb shelters are being built. As an added touch of realism, Yugoslav airplanes drop smoke bombs on some cities during air-raid drills. Emulating the tactics of the Czechoslovak broadcasters, Yugoslav radio stations are setting up alternative facilities outside the cities so that they can keep the people informed in the event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which is equipped with a mixture...
...measure of the renewed aggressiveness and confidence of the Egyptian army, which has been demonstrating increasing boldness in other ways as well. Bedouins have lately probed deep into the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula, successfully mining major Israeli roads and getting within twelve miles of strategic Mitla Pass. In one raid last month, an Egyptian patrol killed two Israeli soldiers and kid naped a third. Last week Cairo followed up its barrage by proudly announcing a policy of "preventive defense," meaning that "Egyptian forces will no longer allow the enemy to attack first. Egyptians henceforth will launch offensive operations...
...earlier report, the mayor's emergency truth squads confined themselves to interviewing police, National Guardsmen and hotel security officers-the very people they were intent upon exonerating. In probing the 5 a.m. police raid on the McCarthy headquarters in the Conrad Hilton, Daley's "investigators" failed to question any of the volunteers who were supposedly raining dangerous debris onto the heads of cops and passersby. Some objects obviously were thrown from hotel windows; just as obviously, neither the cops nor the National Guard could have known which windows they came from. Daley's supporters have also made...
...stockholders get $13 in cash; they also get a $100 debenture that pays 6% annual interest until its 1988 maturity. Riklis can thus tap 20 years of Schenley earnings to repay most of the purchase price. Inevitably, some Schenley executives objected to Riklis' terms as a thinly camouflaged raid on Schenley's treasury. Of such people, Riklis snapped: "They are just afraid they will be fired...