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...Egyptian President knows that he cannot realistically expect the massive aid Washington has been giving Israel-especially as the U.S. approaches an election year. Sadat would, nonetheless, like sophisticated defensive weapons: patrol boats for the Mediterranean coastline and the Suez Canal, the F-5E "defensive" jet fighter, and the TOW wire-guided antitank missile, which Israel used effectively in 1973 against Egyptian tanks in the Sinai. He will not ask Washington to stop aid to Israel, but he will reiterate a request that it not heat up the arms race by giving Jerusalem advanced weapons like the Pershing missile...
...gourmet cooking in the nude. (Neighbors stop by frequently to borrow sugar.) Exhibition, a box office sensation in Paris, had its U.S. premiere last week at the New York Film Festival. The porno queen herself flew in for the screening with her current lover, Didier Faya, 20, in tow. "He was a plumber," explains Beccarie matter-of-factly. "He came to fix my pipes...
President Valery Giscard d'Estaing shuns a large security force, once walked a foreign visitor back to his hotel late at night, and enjoys driving himself about in his silver Peugeot 504 with a car of security men in tow. He has of late given up an initial penchant for trying to lose the back-up car in the whirls of Paris traffic. On routine trips into the countryside, four or five agents of the Service of Official Trips accompany the President, a force that grows to 25 when he is confronted with large holiday crowds. As in most...
Columbia will be relying somewhat on inexperience, as only three lettermen populate their roster. Unfortunately for the Crimson, though, one of those returnees in junior Paul Heck, an All-Ivy selection a year ago who is one of tow Lions ever to have qualified for the NCAA...
...quantities of oil at sea was called for. The result: CONDEEP- a giant concrete-reinforced production platform with huge storage tanks. A Norwegian innovation, two CONDEEPs have been put in place in the British sector; each cost $300 million and has a storage capacity of 900,000 bbl. The tow alone, 163 miles to one field and 225 miles to another, cost $2.7 million per unit - the biggest and most expensive tugboat operation in history...