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...stuntman of his era. Ekins' later credits included doubling for McQueen again in a famous car chase through San Francisco in the 1968 thriller Bullitt and overseeing stunts for the '70s TV show CHiPs. He was 77. His exploits as an Air Force pilot in the Pacific during World War??II included 219 combat missions; he counted among his myriad awards an honorary title from the Queen of England. But Major General John (Jock) Henebry was best known as a member of the Grim Reapers, an élite group who mastered a dangerous but accurate technique called "skip bombing" that...
Managing Editor Richard Stengel is right: Americans are hungry to be asked to do something [Sept. 10]. During World War??II, we all were asked to do something, and we did. Back then, we were joined in a common cause. Today there is a void. We need to resurrect a sense of obligation to our country besides taxes and voting. One way to help accomplish this would be to institute a draft. Everyone should be obligated to serve the country in some fashion. Maybe then we would stop identifying ourselves with narrow labels such as liberal, conservative, Democrat and Republican...
...recent weeks. During the time that both wars were going full tilt, the NATO alliance was meeting in Bonn to discuss disarmament. The Pope was urging peace, first in London, then in Buenos Aires. In New York City, some 700,000 people massed to offer a cry against nuclear war???the protesters a target of easy mockery for the coolly sophisticated, but 700,000 strong nonetheless. At the U.N., more than 120 heads of state and national representatives met to talk about making the world safe for itself...
...they would constitute a more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war???than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...
What we were about to explore was how far Israel would go in giving up not only the territory freshly gained in the October 1973 war???started by Syria?but also some symbolic piece of territory, even if only a sliver of what Israel had taken in the 1967 war. Every Arab leader had told me that Syria could not merely settle on restoration of the 1973 line; to keep pace with Egypt, which had recovered a slice of the Sinai, some Syrian gain of lands taken by Israel in 1967 was imperative. This was particularly true of Quneitra, provincial