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Indeed, as the furies rose among more fanatical Arab groups, one of the safest places Sadat might have found was Israel. Four Israeli Kfir fighters escorted the presidential plane to Ben Gurion Airport, which was closed to all other traffic. In Jerusalem, 10,000 policemen were on guard, as well as 2,000 security agents and a special antiterrorist commando unit of the Israel Defense Force. The 1,500-member border police was fully mobilized, and units were stationed at key points
...National Bank of Georgia (Lance's share: 21%). As president, Lance kept a Bible on his desk and put his office right on the main floor, where people could easily get at him. He adopted a risky, go-go strategy financing agribusiness operations. One of Lance's safest deals: lending a total of $4.7 million to the Carter family's thriving peanut firm. Says King Cleveland, former chairman of NBG: "He got more new projects going in 24 months than we'd had in the previous 24 years...
Arabs feel the safest place to put their money...
Besides providing smoke cover for the troops, the low-flying Starfighters were deliberately used to make the hostages seek cover on the floor-the safest place for them during a gun battle. Authorities theorized that both victims #151;a 40-year-old man from Elst and an Indonesian girl from Groningen who spent her 20th birthday on the train -were shot when they stood up. But so effective were the terrifying roars of the jetcraft that the great majority of the prisoners instinctively dove for the ground. Summed up Air Force Major W.A. Blaauw: "It was a nice operation...
...right-and that the technology will develop to pump the oil out at an acceptable price even if it can be found. In embracing a very gloomy estimate of world reserves and production capabilities, Carter may indeed have erred on the side of caution, convinced that that was the safest course for the security of the nation...