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...funeral procession moved from the President's house at Olivos outside Buenos Aires to the city's cathedral and then to the Congress. Atop Perón's casket, which was wrapped in Argentina's blue and white flag, were his general's cap and saber. Men and women lining the five-mile route burst into tears. Some tossed flowers at the coffin; others simply waved their handkerchiefs. There were plaintive cries of "Adiós, mi general" and "Chau, viejo," meaning, affectionately, "Goodbye...
...Saada, a commander of part of Egypt's forces on the canal's east bank, boasted that his troops are ready to fight. "Give me an order from Cairo," he exclaimed, "and I'll push on!" Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan scoffed at the Egyptian saber rattling. "The Egyptian Third Army was broken, and is kept alive by our mercy," he told Siilasvuo. "If the Egyptians want to start the war again, the blood will be on their heads...
Except for scattered skirmishes along the Suez Canal, the guns of war fell silent last week across the Middle East. Almost as abruptly as it had begun, the superpower saber-rattling also came to an end. One week earlier it had threatened to involve the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 18-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The U.S. last week ended a worldwide military alert called to forestall apparent Soviet troop moves into Egypt; after briefly chiding the U.S. for giving in to baseless fears, Moscow then let the matter drop...
...hour-long speech more than lived up to popular expectations. With its redolent phrases describing Egypt's finest military hour, the address distantly recalled the great Crispin's Day oration in Shakespeare's Henry V. More significant was its substance. There was the predictable touch of saber rattling as Sadat warned that Egypt now had a homemade missile, the Zafir (Victor), that was capable of striking "the deepest depths of Israel." Yet under the guise of what he called an "open letter" to President Nixon, Sadat also offered a very concrete set of peace proposals. They included...
Cannons to the right of him, cannons to the left of him, Flashy is back in the saddle again. Saber up, pants down, his wit a well-stropped razor, he careers through the fourth installment of his adventures as the British Empire's raciest, cheekiest hero...