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...Were. The letters were written between 1963 and 1968, the year Gilpatric was separated from his third wife, Madelin. In the last of the four that were to be auctioned, Jackie explained to Ros, with whom she had traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula several months before, why she had not let him in on her plans to marry Ari. "Dearest Ros -I would have told you before I left -but then everything happened so much more quickly than I'd planned." She closed the letter, written during her honeymoon, saying, "I hope you know all you were...
...drifting sands of the Sinai Peninsula had not yet settled over the wreckage of Arab war machines in 1967 when Israel and Egypt became locked in another fevered contest. Since the Suez Canal was closed indefinitely by the Six-Day War, forcing oil tankers to make the long and costly journey around the Cape of Good Hope, both countries hastily revived plans to build pipelines. These lines were intended to transmit Middle East oil more quickly and cheaply to the Mediterranean for shipment to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Last week Egypt's plans were still on the drawing...
...nerves. Though no alternative to Nasser is in sight, proponents of the present strategy argue that in any case the strikes have delayed a new round of full-scale fighting by at least five years. Nasser has admitted that he is in no position to liberate the Sinai Peninsula at present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month. The Egyptian side of the canal, meanwhile, has been deserted by frightened Egyptians. At least 400,000 have fled...
Chewing a fat cigar and bundled up against a chill wind at Sharm el Sheikh, near the tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli Chief of Staff General Haim Bar-Lev talked to newsmen last week about Israel's military plans. "I regard all Egypt," he said, "as ground for attack." Said another officer: "If they continue to make trouble for us, we will continue to make trouble for them...
...Sept. 15 -Israel detonates a Flouristan 238 Neutrino Anti-matter Fission Device (carried in a briefcase into the middle of the Sinai Peninsula) parting the Red Sea and setting fire to a limited sector of the firmament in what Israeli spokesmen term a "satisfactory test...