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Last week the remaining units of Israel's invasion force withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal. Emblazoned with signs saying GOODBYE AFRICA, HELLO TEL AVIV, tanks, halftracks and packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
...forces were geared to what defense planners termed the "2½-war concept." It meant that in theory the U.S. was prepared to fight three wars at the same time ? one in Europe, another in Asia and a "brush-fire" war somewhere else. Since the U.S. withdrew its forces from Viet Nam, how ever, the strategic premise has been changed to 1½ wars, with the main event envisaged in Europe...
...ahead, to be sure that she had given up hope that her husband would ever be found. Working the telephone, O'Neill lined up the support of 121 Democrats in three days and 190 by Thanksgiving. His only rival was Sam Gibbons of Florida, who quickly withdrew when he saw that the struggle was hopeless. Said Gibbons: "I know better than anyone that Tip doesn't have an enemy in the House...
Black spirals of smoke dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...will no doubt enable you to get even greater benefits from your association with Terry Brokerage Co. than you have heretofore." With his case before the board of ethics, Terry weakly protested that "my grammar used to be better until I began meeting with the press." Shortly afterward, he withdrew his nomination...