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Ironically, it was an Arab-Israeli conflict that marked both the rise and decline of the supertanker boom. Before the Six-Day War broke out in 1967, there was only one 200,000-ton ship in existence. But the closing of the Suez Canal created a need for huge ships that could economically carry oil the long way around Africa to the Atlantic. Soon U.S. oil imports began to increase sharply. Then came the October war, followed by the oil price increase and the worldwide recession that it helped cause. Even if oil consumption picks up smartly in the future...
...think Arafat represents the Palestinians," says Sarid, disagreeing with Yafeh. "There is no other leader who is able to represent them. Maybe right after the Six-Day War local Palestinian leaders could have arisen. But we did everything to prevent it, and now, even the other potential Palestinian leaders admit that Arafat and the PLO are the only true representatives...
...commando attack on Phuoc Binh, the capital of Phuoc Long province. That marked the Viet Cong's first offensive against the picturesque hill town of about 25,000 people located 75 miles north of Saigon on a bend of the Song Be River. Last week, after a violent six-day siege of the city, the Communists finally captured Phuoc Binh. During the drive they also took a key crossroads and two airstrips, as well as every village and town in Phuoc Long province (see map). Though the Communists have made considerable territorial gains during the last decade...
...Arabist, the writer was appointed Ambassador to Egypt in 1967. His service was interrupted, however, because diplomatic relations were severed as a result of the Six-Day...
Although the protest was ostensibly aimed at inflation, the underlying reason for the riots was a growing fear that the Middle East may be drifting back to the tense and economically costly "no war, no peace" situation that followed the Six-Day War of 1967. In fact, as a reminder that tension still plagues the region, on three consecutive days last week Israel sent commandos into southern Lebanon. They raided villages, destroyed houses, and seized five villagers as alleged terrorists. Lebanese officials reported that four civilians and one soldier had been killed. Israelis said that the raids were merely "preventive...