Word: trooped
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...member of Elks Lodge No. 48 in Grand Rapids. The furniture city's American Legion post carries him on its rolls. He is counted among the members of the Grace Episcopal Church. Old Troop No. 15, Boy Scouts of America, is collecting his mementos (he was one of the youngest Eagle Scouts in its history). The Michigan Bar Association has designated him Permanent Member No. 13563, in case he goes into court, and listed him as Ford, Gerald R., 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., President of the United States...
...other hand, if we are able to negotiate some modifications in troop commitments in Western Europe with the MBFR, Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions, then there might be some benefits in our defense budget in conventional warfare...
...passes are the only viable routes through the Sinai mountains for armies moving either toward the Suez Canal or away from it toward the Israeli border. Israel, which controls the passes, has offered to pull back to their eastern end, where it maintains electronic listening equipment to monitor Egyptian troop movements. Egypt's Sadat, on the other hand, demands that Israel pull out of both passes completely. He has threatened not to renew the mandate of the United Nations peace-keeping forces, presently wedged between the two opposing armies in the Sinai. The latest mandate is due to expire...
...accept the U.S.-Egyptian terms. Under one proposal, which neither Jerusalem nor Cairo has explicitly rejected, the two passes could be demilitarized and put under control of United Nations forces. But U.S. technicians would man the monitors, much as American satellites on orbits over the Sinai now take troop-disposition pictures that are provided to both Egypt and Israel...
...strained relations between the two governments also aroused a few suspicions (quickly denied in Washington) that U.S. intelligence, in order to embarrass Rabin, might have leaked stories to the effect that recent Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai were not what they seemed to be. At the end of Ford's meeting with Sadat, the Israelis, as a token of their interest in peace, announced that they were thinning out their 7,000 troops in the Limited Forces Zone in the Sinai. As it turned out, the Israelis had earlier reduced their forces to about 3,500; in some sectors...