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...cartoon: "Truman (A) plays piano, knocking over bowl containing Amerasia secret papers (B)−fumes (C) overcome Republican Senator (D), who falls back, causing spoon (E) to toss surplus potato (F)−Joe Di-Maggio (G) swings, causing revolving mechanism (H) to set off leftover 4th of July rocket (I) which hits dice box (J), causing it to throw a natural−District Attorney (K) runs to investigate gambling, causing rope (L) to pull shirt (M) off taxpayer's back...
...Lotz entered a party a few days later, the brigadier shouted: "Here comes the Israeli spy who tried to get into our rocket base." Everyone laughed, including Lotz. He had already reported to his Israeli colleagueswho still refer to him as "the champagne spy"that the Shaloufa base was being made ready for Soviet missiles...
Lotz's greatest accomplishment was his verification that the Shaloufa rocket site, near Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal, was a genuine base and not a dummy. Posing as tourists on a fishing trip, the Lotzes drove toward the camp and managed to get themselves arrested. "I was afraid they would simply send us away," says Lotz. "Fortunately, they took us straight into the base." Once there, Lotz talked the commandant into calling his old friend Brigadier General Fuad Osman, a highly placed Egyptian intelligence officer. The conversation, as Lotz recalls...
...figure, Dr. Michael Cobb. Cobb is a pander in the form of a society osteopath. Yet Cassill manages to present him sympathetically as a high-souled practitioner of black magic and sexual adept who trains a young whore to take part in a serious, occult effort to persuade the rocket-rattling minister to make love...
...medium-and intermediate-range ballistic missiles and medium bombers (see chart). Two problems that could complicate the final equation, however, have not yet come up for discussion: > Both sides are moving ahead with the development of MIRV (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles), a system that arms a single rocket with several warheads. Its deployment, undetectable by most monitoring procedures, could make a final agreement impossible. >The Nixon plan provides for parity in delivery systems but not in megatonnage. Because some Soviet rockets are so much larger (some SS-9s pack 25 megatons v. five megatons for Titan...