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...from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp along the shores of the Dead Sea. In Rehovoth, a sleepy little town founded by Polish Jews in 1890, the mysteries of life and death (not to mention the technicalities of heavy water...
...were in balance -which really meant undiminished Israeli superiority-and that Israel had no need for more than the 76 Phantoms it now owns. After the White House talks, President Nixon reversed that stand. The U.S. will provide Israel with Phantoms as well as slower but versatile A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bombers. No official totals have been mentioned, but knowledgeable estimates put the figure at 40 Phantoms and 80 Skyhawks. Both sides insist that Israel had given nothing in exchange, which seemed hard to believe. "Official denials do not have a very convincing ring," said the Israeli newspaper...
...plan. A temporary ceasefire, Mrs. Meir said, would only permit the Arabs to "prepare for the renewal of the war in a more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed by SA-2s since the Six-Day War other than a lone Piper Cub. The fact that Russia has apparently developed mobile platforms for the missiles, enabling Egypt to shift and hide them in an area...
...politics, always a volatile mixture, are boiling again in the Arab world. Western oilmen in the Middle East are understandably nervous about Washington's impending decision on Israel's request for 25 Phantom and 100 Skyhawk jets. If the sale, joes through as expected, it is,certain to spark Arab outrage. What worries the oilmen is that Arab mobs or guerrillas, whom not even the local governments can control, might vent their anger against vulnerable U.S.-owned drilling rigs, pipelines and refineries...
...started out 22 years ago with British Hurricanes and Spitfires, plus some German Messerschmitts provided by the Czechs, then moved on to French Mysteres, Vautours, Mag-isters and Ouragans, some of which are still in service after 15 years. Now French-built Mirages fly cover for the Phantoms and Skyhawks. The Phantom, operational so far only in the U.S., Britain and Iran, in addition to Israel, is a heavy-duty workhorse that reaches 1,600 m.p.h., carries 17,000 Ibs. of armament, fires its electric machine guns at the rate of 100 rounds per second, can swoop to 100 feet...