Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat wants the U.S. to sell Egypt up to 120 F-5E fighter planes, priced at about $5 million each, to replace the deteriorating planes acquired from the Russians since 1955. But even more urgently, Sadat's advisers want the U.S. to delay indefinitely compliance with an Israeli request for the more sophisticated $10 million F-16 fighter. "To introduce this aircraft into the Middle East would create a dangerous military escalation," an Egyptian official warned. Carter's top Defense and State Department advisers have urged him to grant Sadat's requests. "The planes the Russians gave him are falling...
...Last week's disclosure of Orne as the "unidentified researcher" mentioned in a University statement on CIA funding of Harvard projects raises several questions, centering not so much on the hypnosis research--which does not seem to be controversial--as on the University's decision to honor Orne's request to remain unidentified...
Another woman, separated since Monday from her three children, called several times begging permission to drive in on Route 93 from New Hampshire. Her request was denied...
Sadat cited "urgent messages" from Somaha and Chad asking for Egyptian aid as the reason behind his request for weapons. He told American Journalists that he has already sent Soviet-supplied arms to Somalia and that he might provide troops for Somalia in its war with Ethiopia...
Directors themselves are quick to assert that these tactics vary from useless to worse than useless. Colon explains that if he is asked quietly to explain his call he is glad to. But an angry request (or should it be demand) for explanation only makes him tense. And though he naturally tries to remain objective, he says "I know I'm annoyed...