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Nonetheless the danger of a major war between Greece and Turkey was so acute that diplomats everywhere pitched in to stop the shooting on Cyprus. The Security Council approved unanimously-after the Soviet Union withdrew its earlier opposition-a resolution calling for a cease-fire and negotiations. Turkey flatly refused to obey...
...spent on the earrings was originally derived from campaign funds and that Bebe Rebozo attempted to disguise the money's source by transferring it in and out of four separate Florida bank accounts. The $4,562.38, the report charges, was part of $6,000 that Rebozo withdrew on April 15, 1969, from the Florida Nixon for President Committee account in the Key Biscayne Bank and Trust Company -which he heads-and immediately deposited in a trust account in the name of his lawyer, Thomas H. Wakefield...
Virtual Release. Numeiry then sent the eight terrorists to Cairo, where they are now said to be in jail, awaiting transfer to another Arab country. In protest against Numeiry's move, Washington angrily withdrew its present ambassador, William Brewer, from Khartoum, citing dismay over "the virtual release of these confessed murderers." Despite Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's recent demonstration of friendship toward the U.S., the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram, which frequently prints his views, hailed Numeiry for "understanding the motives that led the Palestinians to appear before Sudanese courts...
...Israelis withdrew from their salient inside Syria, thousands of refugees flocked south on the Damascus-Quneitra road to return to their land. When the day finally arrived for the takeover of the capital itself, thousands were packed along the dusty highway, waiting for the barriers to open...
...flat, as though by dynamite, or pockmarked by shellfire. Surrounded by rubble and flying dust, Syrian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ayoubi called the destruction "barbaric"-without referring to Syria's part in the fighting-and charged that much of the damage had occurred "not in war, but before Israel withdrew...