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Ever since, Low has been working six-day weeks of up to 16 hours a day. The Apollo command module, with all its 2,000,000 parts, was torn apart, reexamined, and extensively redesigned at a cost of $75 million, an operation that set back Apollo's timetable by many months...
...frequent outbursts of hostility. Like Arabs everywhere else, the Lebanese of course paid lip service and tithes to the Arab cause against Israel, but they were far more interested in commerce than in aggressive politics. The Beirut government dutifully declared war against Israel during last year's Six-Day War-and sent two fighters on a sortie southward toward Tel Aviv. When one was shot down, Lebanon happily withdrew from the campaign, its duty done...
...been encouraged, rightly or wrongly, to hope for new understanding from the U.S. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser wired Christmas greetings to Nixon, a gesture that he never accorded President Johnson, and there is widespread expectation that diplomatic relations with the U.S., broken off by Nasser during the Six-Day War, will be restored shortly after Inauguration Day...
...talk to each other. In the bitter history of Arab-Israeli relations, that is no mean accomplishment. Though his mandate was due to expire this month, both sides want him to stay on the job. One of the reasons is that Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day War introduced at least a small element of reality into the Middle East impasse. Before the 1967 war, the only issue was Israel's existence, a matter clearly not negotiable at a conference table between the Israelis and the Arabs. But the matter of recovering the occupied territories...
...political settlement, declaring for the first time that it would not "permit" a resumption of war-whatever that meant. Washington registered its anxiety by calling in the Israeli and Jordanian ambassadors. They were warned against the dangers of continuing to violate the tattered cease-fire agreement that ended the Six-Day...