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Egypt will deploy additional, heavily-armed troops along the Philadelphi Route. Israel and Egypt are close to wrapping up an agreement on security arrangements along the Philadelphi Route to restrict arms-smuggling into the Gaza Strip, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told reporters at a press conference following a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Abul Gheit in Jerusalem Wednesday. The agreement will allow Egypt to deploy additional, heavily-armed troops along its border with the Gaza Strip. "We reached an agreement that allows for the deployment of additional Egyptian forces on the Egyptian side of the border, despite the fact that the peace...

The three ambassadors who died violent deaths were Cleo Noel Jr.,killed in March 1973 when Palestinian terrorists struck an embassy in Sudan; Adolph Dubs, killed in 1973 when Afghan police stormed a hotel room where he was being held by terrorists; and Arnold Raphel, who died in 1988 when a plane crashed. Receiving waivers as longtime diplomats with military service were William Rivkin and Philip Crowe. Rivkin, who died in 1967, served as ambassador to Senegal, Gambia and Luxembourg and spent five years of in the Army during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Crowe, who...

Times (New) Roman and its part in the Development of Scalable Font Technology By Charles Bigelow Charles Bigelow posted this article to the Usenet newsgroup "comp.fonts" in May 1994 in response to the question: What's the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman? I am grateful to Prof. Bigelow for his permission to publish the article. I have taken the liberty of retitling it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: What's the difference between Times Roman and Times New Roman? From: Charles Bigelow Date: 5 May 1994 "Times Roman" is the name used by Linotype, and the name they registered...

This is the American Forces Vietnam Network. < -snip- > News compiled from major commercial and military news sources. It’s 5 pm. In the top of the News, Senator John Stennis underwent a lengthy operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he was shot during a hold up in front of his Washington home today. The surgery was for the removal of two bullets, one from the Senator’s chest, and one from his left leg. A hospital spokesman says that Stennis’ condition is listed as stable. White House News Secretary Ronald Ziegler says that President Nixon has been informed...

<p>John Kerry, a Vietnam vet and head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, watches as President Nixon announces an agreement on a cease fire in Vietnam. Kerry, who lost to Republican Paul Cronin (D-Mass) in the November general elections said, "my initial reaction is thank God that the prisoners are coming home and that we at least have stopped American participation in the war."</p>

Jewish Group Charges Anti-Semitism in Movie

May 14, 1973 US News & World Report Inside Story HOW THE POW's FOUGHT BACK By John S. McCain III Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy Of the almost unbelievably cruel treatment accorded American prisoners of war in Vietnam, none is more dramatic than that of Lieut. Commander John S. McCain III-Navy flier, son of the admiral who commanded the war in the Pacific, and a prisoner who came in for "special attention" during 51/2 years of captivity in North Vietnam. Now that all acknowledged prisoners are back and a self-imposed seal of silence is off, Commander McCain is free to answer...

These days former Vietnam war POW Sen. John McCain has nothing but praise for his fellow Vietnam veteran, Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' current presidential front-runner. But after he was released from the Hanoi Hilton in 1973, Sen. McCain publicly complained that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fullbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us." "They used Senator Fullbright a great deal," McCain wrote in the May 14, 1973 issue of U.S. News & World Report. While he was languishing in a North Vietnamese prison cell,...

washingtonpost.com 1973 Document Puts Bush on Guard Base By Mike Allen and Lois Romano Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, February 12, 2004; Page A01 The White House last night released a document showing that President Bush was at a military base in Alabama during the last year of his National Guard service, but aides backed away from his weekend pledge to release all his military records. Bush's staff provided copies of a one-page record of a dental exam, complete with drawings of Bush's teeth, that showed he was at Dannelly Air National Guard base in Montgomery, Ala., on Jan. 6,...

"George W. Bush is a deserter..." – Film director Michael Moore at a Jan. 17 rally for presidential candidate Wesley Clark. "I would call it AWOL." – Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe in a Jan. 25 interview with CNN. "The issue here as I have heard it raised is, was he present and active on duty in Alabama at the times he was supposed to be?" – Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, during a Feb. 8 news conference in Virginia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many issues on which President Bush's supporters and detractors can have an honest, but respectful, disagreement...

Papers released under the 30-year rule show Britain worried about Middle East conflict and what to buy for a royal wedding The British Government believed America was preparing for a lightning war in the Middle East to end the 1973 oil crisis, including an invasion of Kuwait, documents released today to the National Archives show. The Joint Intelligence Committee, the body that acts as the link between the intelligence services and Downing Street, warned the Prime Minister, Edward Heath that Washington was planning to seize oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait to secure the Western economies. The...

<p>LONDON, England (AP) -- British spy chiefs warned after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war that they believed the United States might invade Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi to seize their oil fields, according to records released Thursday.</p> <p>A British intelligence committee report from December 1973 said America was so angry over Arab nations' earlier decision to cut oil production and impose an embargo on the United States that seizing oil-producing areas in the region was "the possibility uppermost in American thinking."</p>

Politicians were insufficiently informed, and failed to understand the information they did have on the eve of the Yom Kippur War, said Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, on Sunday as he released secret committee transcripts from the eve of the Yom Kippur War. The transcripts, kept from the public until now for security reasons, were released as required by law after 30 years — save for two sections, which may be released later, said Steinitz at a press conference in the state archives in Jerusalem. Some of the information failure arose from questions politicians...

A special memorial ceremony will be held this evening at the Paratroopers Brigade Memorial in the Tel Nof Air Force Base to mark the 30th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who played a major role in the war as a major-general commanding the 143rd Reserve Armored Division on the Suez Canal, will take part. Similar ceremonies will take place next week, after Yom Kippur. Rafael (Raful) Eitan, an IDF Northern Command general during the Yom Kippur War who later became Chief of Staff, discussed some of his reflections on the war and the intervening period...

In his home near Tel Aviv this summer, a retired general recalled the impact on him of the surprise attack that opened the Yom Kippur War. One of Israel's most aggressive armor commanders, he was serving in 1973 as a deputy division commander. "Your body breaks out in a cold sweat... Your mind freezes up. The only military response you are capable of is what you have rehearsed, even if it is not appropriate to the unexpected circumstances." The shock induced by that war 30 years ago continues to haunt men who participated in it. Many are still jarred from...

(IsraelNN.com) Thirty years after the Yom Kippur War, 700 IDF veterans are still undergoing psychological therapy. Defense ministry officials promise the therapy will continue for as long as necessary.

The Yom Kippur War Recordings (August 22) The exclusive recordings from a Suez Canal bunker during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, as recorded by Avi Yaffe. Go Here And click on the first The site is in English, so you can see it (the Yom Kippur one). Once the window pops up, just click on english or hebrew.

Abortion case erodes over time After 30 years, attorney in Roe vs. Wade still defending the decision 01/17/2003 By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN - In 1973, Sarah Weddington's hair was light brown, her legal career was in early bloom and she was certain that her Roe vs. Wade case had forever and irreversibly legalized abortion. "I thought it had been written in concrete," she said recently, her gray hair pulled tight into a bun. The idea that she'd still be defending the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court decision 30 years later would have struck her as...