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During her visit to the White House last month, Israeli Premier Golda Meir bluntly asked President Nixon to sell her the 50 Phantoms that Israel had been requesting for 15 months. Until Mrs. Meir's visit, the U.S. response had been that Middle East military forces were in balance -which really meant undiminished Israeli superiority-and that Israel had no need for more than the 76 Phantoms it now owns. After the White House talks, President Nixon reversed that stand. The U.S. will provide Israel with Phantoms as well as slower but versatile A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bombers...
Only Chou. In the nervous Middle East, Israel's Prime Minister Golda Meir and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat clung to a precarious cease-fire and flirted warily with proposals to ease tensions, while talking as pugnaciously as ever. Whatever the merits of their long-range goals, Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan (now deposed) and India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi brought more suffering to the subcontinent, he by turning his troops loose in a murderous rampage against rebellious Bengalis in East Pakistan...
...running, Good Housekeeping magazine's annual poll to determine the Most Admired Women named Rose Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower as No. 1 and No. 2. The rest of the top ten: 3) Novelist Pearl S. Buck, 4) Actress Patricia Neal, 5) First Lady Patricia Nixon, 6) Israeli Premier Golda Meir, 7) Ethel Kennedy, 8) Actress Helen Hayes, 9) Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 10) Princess Grace of Monaco. The Most Admired were chosen by the magazine's 1,000-member consumer panel from a list of 28, which included Jacqueline Onassis, up to 19th from 23rd...
...odds with the U.S., its closest friend and its only real source of weapons. Washington considers Jerusalem intransigent, while Israelis resent U.S. attempts to pressure them into negotiating with the Arabs, most notably by withholding 50 Phantom jet fighters. The quarrel has become so abrasive that Premier Golda Meir flew to Washington last week in an effort to resolve it directly with President Nixon...
ASSAULT FORCE SINCE D-DAY,*and SYRIA LIKELY TO JOIN FRAY. The first nationwide test of air-raid sirens since the Six-Day War of 1967, added to the scare. Premier Golda Meir, addressing Labor Party leaders in Tel Aviv, warned: "We cannot permit ourselves to carry on with the attitude of business-as-usual with Sadat saying to his people not that he will win, but that he will take them into battle...