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...cold in the Maryland mountains when Roy Ash, director of the Office of Management and Budget, walked into Laurel Cottage at Camp David, normally the President's work retreat. On this morning Nixon was in Florida, and his troop of budget experts had moved...
...begun, the superpower saber-rattling also came to an end. One week earlier it had threatened to involve the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 18-day war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The U.S. last week ended a worldwide military alert called to forestall apparent Soviet troop moves into Egypt; after briefly chiding the U.S. for giving in to baseless fears, Moscow then let the matter drop...
...Please imagine for a moment that your's is (merely) an institution somewhere in Latin America, and this the occasion of the receipt of a letter from the Underground. These words, written through the student newspaper, have caused some obvious response on the campus by the government police and troop movements, stepped up identity checks, the seizure of the newspaper office...
...picked up signs of Russian military activity: mobilization ordered for two mechanized divisions near the Black Sea and a halt in Soviet military transport flights to Egypt and Syria. The cutoff in the flights carrying military supplies suggested that the giant Soviet planes might have been diverted home for troop movements. Intelligence experts feared that the Russian units might be sent in-at Sadat's urgent request-to help rescue the beleaguered Egyptian Third Army...
...scale down Pentagon budget requests so that they would be acceptable to the Senate. Though he is adamant about maintaining U.S. forces in Europe, he joined Senator Sam Nunn in introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriation Bill that would require European nations to share the cost of the troop commitment; the amendment was passed. He and his staff are huddling with both the White House and Soviet diplomats to try to work out a compromise on the trade bill. "Scoop does not see things in black and white," says Richard Perle, a member of his staff. "His policy...