Word: trooped
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...reluctant to disclose last week. Largely as a result of the Arab oil embargo, imports of crude into the U.S. declined by 10% from the week before, and are now running 22% behind the early autumn. Treasury Secretary George Shultz last week said that Middle East troop disengagement (see THE WORLD) would lead to a relaxation of that embargo; but he did not predict when. Saudi officials have declared that they would keep it clamped on until the Israelis agreed to a complete pullback behind 1967 borders. Simon expects that if there is a political solution to the embargo, "there...
...settlement pledged the belligerents to a "scrupulous" observance of disengagement, defined the broad perimeters of troop reduction and its timing, and emphasized that disengagement around the Suez Canal was only the first step toward a "final, just and durable peace." According to reports in Jerusalem, it allows the Egyptians to keep a token force of eight battalions, or 7,000 men and only 30 tanks, in the desert...
...crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area. But there was speculation that his transfer north was also designed to loos en his grip on Peking and at the same tune dismantle the network of personal loyalties built up by Chen Hsi-lien, 60, the military commander of the northern region for more than...
Along the Suez Canal there were ripples of unrest. The Israelis complained to UNEF that Egyptian troop advances were taking place along the western shore of the Great Bitter Lake, threatening Israeli supply lines. Later they announced that Egyptian missiles had shot down a pilotless Israeli drone plane on a reconnaissance flight over the canal. But at Geneva both sides still seemed eager to put an optimistic face on their negotiations. At week's end they announced that they had reached "consensus on some principles of disengagement." If they can reach an agreement on this critical problem within...
...Likud coalition favors annexation of occupied territories and is capitalizing on the Labor government's war errors. Asked one of its campaign advertisements: "Do you agree that 'somebody' failed in their assessment of the Arab troop concentrations? That we were caught napping? That going back to the pre-1967 borders is suicide...