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Moscow sources report there may be shakeup in administration that doles out Soviet military hardware internationally. It’s now estimated Soviet Union has lost equivalent of $3 billion worth of military equipment in past two years: $2 billion in Middle East (Egypt, Syria, Iraq), another $1 billion when Sukarno was overthrown in Indonesia. . . . Preliminary figures indicate Arabs killed in 55-hour war may go as high as 30,000—as against announced figure of under 700 for Israel. . . . Part of secret: Israeli air force was so organized it could keep 80 per cent of its planes in air at all times (for limited number of days); couldn’t be knocked out wholesale as were Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian air forces. . . . It wasn’t until ten days after he’d been appointed Minister of Defense that Gen. Moshe Dayan found time for his swearing-in ceremony.

Britain, India stand to be the innocent victims of the war. . . . More than 35 per cent of Britain’s energy comes from oil; 67 per cent of her oil comes from Middle East. . . . India hurting over delay in food shipments from the U.S., extra cost of shipping it around Cape of Good Hope. . . . South Africa reports it is rushing food supplies to Capetown and Durban to revictual 300 ships already diverted from Canal; thousands more are expected, many of them flying flags of nations that have trade sanctions against South Africa. . . . Secretary McNamara says U.S. forces in South Vietnam in no danger of immediate oil squeeze: they have 17 million barrels stockpiled. . . . Sidebar on war: Tunisia and Egypt have resumed diplomatic relations broken in 1966 when Bourguiba suggested Arabs should negotiate settlement of Palestine refugees directly with Israel. . . . Getting the point across: anti-U.S., Britain demonstrators in Peking paraded clay statues of Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson in front of British diplomatic mission, both of them shown being strangled to death.

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Moscow sources report there may be shakeup in administration that doles out Soviet military hardware internationally. It’s now estimated Soviet Union has lost equivalent of $3 billion worth of military equipment in past two years: $2 billion in Middle East (Egypt, Syria, Iraq), another $1 billion when Sukarno was overthrown in Indonesia. . . . Preliminary figures indicate Arabs killed in 55-hour war may go as high as 30,000—as against announced figure of under 700 for Israel. . . . Part of secret: Israeli air force was so organized it could keep 80 per cent of its planes in air at all times (for limited number of days); couldn’t be knocked out wholesale as were Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian air forces. . . . It wasn’t until ten days after he’d been appointed Minister of Defense that Gen. Moshe Dayan found time for his swearing-in ceremony.

Britain, India stand to be the innocent victims of the war. . . . More than 35 per cent of Britain’s energy comes from oil; 67 per cent of her oil comes from Middle East. . . . India hurting over delay in food shipments from the U.S., extra cost of shipping it around Cape of Good Hope. . . . South Africa reports it is rushing food supplies to Capetown and Durban to revictual 300 ships already diverted from Canal; thousands more are expected, many of them flying flags of nations that have trade sanctions against South Africa. . . . Secretary McNamara says U.S. forces in South Vietnam in no danger of immediate oil squeeze: they have 17 million barrels stockpiled. . . . Sidebar on war: Tunisia and Egypt have resumed diplomatic relations broken in 1966 when Bourguiba suggested Arabs should negotiate settlement of Palestine refugees directly with Israel. . . . Getting the point across: anti-U.S., Britain demonstrators in Peking paraded clay statues of Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson in front of British diplomatic mission, both of them shown being strangled to death.