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...United Nations, 19 Afro-Asian nations on behalf of Egypt introduced a tough resolution deploring Israel's continued occupation of Arab territories seized during the Six-Day War of 1967. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad opened the debate by declaring that three years of quiet diplomacy had failed, "due to Israel's insistence on expansion on the one hand, and the support it receives from the U.S. on the other." Foreign Minister Abba Eban again called on Cairo to "rectify" the uneasy situation along the Suez Canal by pulling back all or most of the missiles that the Egyptians...
...express his displeasure over the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle embargoed military sales to Jerusalem. As a result, the Israelis were denied delivery of 50 Mirage5 fighter-bombers for which they had already paid $67 million. Now, after attempts to get the planes from post-De Gaulle France, Israel has developed its own version of the Mirage. The homemade jet has been successfully test-flown at least three times...
...Other factories meanwhile have begun turning out Israeli tanks. So far, the most successful of these has been a hybrid that can operate in both desert and mountains. It mates the low silhouette and turret design of the Russian T-54 (Israel captured nearly 400 of them in the Six-Day War) with the periscope, stabilizers and range finders of the British Centurion and the transmission and engine of the U.S. Patton tank. Another Israeli tank is part Patton and part Centurion. Some Israelis jokingly call the result of this mix a Panturion...
...pull out its 3,400-man Emergency Force, U Thant swiftly complied rather than try to stall for time. It was one of the more spectacular misjudgments of Thant's flaccid, nine-year stewardship. As a result, Egypt began mobilizing near Israel's borders, and the Six-Day War was on. In the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Nigerian civil war and the war in Indochina, U.N. impact has been...
Matter of Markets. U.S. companies have so far survived war, revolution, guerrilla attacks and every Arab attempt to exert leverage on Washington. The Suez Canal has been closed since the Six-Day War in 1967, but American-owned companies have continued to pump oil. The most serious disruption occurred last May, when a bulldozer accidentally severed the Trans-Arabian Pipeline (Tapline) in Syria, cutting off 480,000 bbl. a day. Syria has refused to allow repairs, presumably in order to embarrass the conservative regime in Saudi Arabia, which is losing $100,000 each day that the pipeline remains closed...