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...before the Yom Kippur War. For 1975 Jerusalem has already indicated that it needs an additional $2.5 billion in arms. Saudi Arabia's recent purchase of 60 easy-to-operate, Mach 1.6 Northrop F-5 "Tiger 2" fighter-bombers, at a cost of $756 million, has thrust it into third place as an American customer, ahead of Greece, West Germany, Spain, Canada and Taiwan...
Butler said the "main thrust" of the legislation is directed at "segments of industry," and that Harvard's workers are already protected against the things the act guards against...
...their discontent with Ford's budget deficit, as well as other aspects of his policy that seemed to separate him from the true faith. "I personally believe that in 1976 we need a new political party," said M. Stanton Evans, chairman of the American Conservative Union. "The essential thrust of this Administration is not a conservative thrust." He was cheered by an audience wearing buttons proclaiming, REAGAN-THE SPIRIT OF '76 or THE DREAM TICKET: REAGAN AND BUCKLEY...
There is no doubt that the thrust of any battle in another Sinai war will center on the passes. "This chain of mountains is the most important geographic factor in Sinai," explains a senior Israeli commander. "North of the passes is soft sand, which makes hard going for armor. To the south are high granite mountains that make large-scale maneuvers impossible. From here we can defend all of Sinai...
...large, China watchers reject the two most extreme theories about Mao's absence. One is that he disapproved of the policies endorsed at the two conclaves-the "sulking in the tent" theory. The other is that he is desperately ill and has actually been thrust aside-the "vegetable God" theory. Mao at 81 has appeared drawn and fragile in recent photographs, but during the Central Committee plenum, he was well enough to receive Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta in Changsha, capital of his native Hunan province; while the People's Congress was in session, he met with...