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...Pentagon wasted no time issuing an order prohibiting the shipment of classified material by commercial passenger planes. The Defense Department also put out the word that officials involved in highly classified work should stay off commercial flights; instead, they should take military or chartered aircraft, or travel by ship, train...
...arms embargo has always been rather meaningless. Though shipment of tanks and certain other big items has remained suspended, the U.S. sold the Greeks a few jet fighters and trainers in 1968 and has maintained the low of trucks and small arms-precisely what the regime needed to keep a tight grip on the country. Pressure on the White House from both Athens md the Pentagon for full resumption of arms aid increased with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. More recently, the Soviets have shipped to Bulgaria several hundred of their latest tanks, which outgun Greece...
...Levy's, Daniel Switkes, 28, a psychiatrist drafted into the service, has asked to be restored to civilian status. Switkes has seemingly lost his case. Last week, after a federal district court in New York City refused his appeal to continue stay of orders, he found himself awaiting shipment to Viet Nam as a general medical officer rather than a practicing psychiatrist...
...Fine Arts and a dedicated admirer of Egyptian art, dispatched an emissary to Cairo to wangle a truly representative selection for a tour of the U.S. Rathbone got the cooperation of the Metropolitan in New York and later the Los Angeles County Museum to share the huge expenses of shipment and insurance. Last year Egyptian authorities finally agreed to lend 43 pieces. It would have been the greatest Egyptian show ever...
...Casualty. Then, abruptly and even as the last few treasures were being crated for shipment, the great show became a casualty of Middle Eastern tensions. In the U.S., pro-Israeli sentiment had been inflamed by the suspected Arab sabotage of an Israel-bound jet, France's visiting President Pompidou had been booed and picketed because his government had closed off military aid to Israel. Rumors spread through the art world that the Met's director, Thomas Hoving, was about to withdraw the Met's support on the ground that he could not assure the safety...