Israeli planes attack inside Egypt
MIDEAST (UPP)—Israeli warplanes returned to the attack deep inside Egypt Thursday, hitting missile bases north and west of Cairo and shooting down three Egyptian MIG21s in an air battle north of the Egyptian capital, Israeli spokesmen reported.
The Israelis struck to within 19 miles of Cairo even as Russia's navy commander said in the government newspaper Izvestia
that the powerful new Soviet Mediterranean fleet is keeping vigil in order to impose a "sobering effect" on the U.S. 6th Fleet and Israel.
A Tel Aviv spokesman said the three Soviet-built MIGs claimed downed were part of an Egyptian formation that tried to intercept Israeli planes bombing an Egyptian SAM2 ground-to-air missile base in the Duhme sector of the
Nile delta, 75 miles north of Cairo.
It was the first Israeli raid deep into Egypt since Feb. 17 when warplanes attacked two missile bases 19 miles south of Cairo. There have been only two such Israeli air penetrations since an Israeli jet bombed an Egyptian steel mill near Cairo Feb. 12, killing 70 civilians in an attack Israel said was a mistake.
The Egyptian spokesmen said eight Egyptian soldiers were wounded when Israeli planes struck an Egyptian military camp west of Cairo. He said the Israeli planes were met by antiaircraft fire.
of the Suez Canal.
Airline pilots threaten strike for more security
The front is the same Palestinian guerilla organization that initially claimed and later denied responsibility for the Swissair airliner crash Feb. 21 outside of Zurich in which 47 persons were killed.
LONDON (UPI) — The International Federation of Airline Pilots, which represent 46,000 commercial pilots throughout the world, threatened Thursday to call a 24-hour strike unless steps are taken both to tighten airline security and to solve the "underlying political problems" that threaten it.
At the same time, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said in Jordan his group reserves the right to attack any airline serving Israel. And Arab governments were reported to be considering reprisals against any nation that applies sanctions against Arab airlines.
The strike threat issued by the international pilots union came 24 hours before an emergency meeting here of the International Transport Workers Federation, which also will discuss recent attacks on airlines and steps to
A Cairo military spokesman said the Egyptian planes knocked out Israeli tanks and weapons emplacements in the canal raids, but the Israelis said they suffered no damage.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former President Lyndon B. Johnson has suggested that the President and his family always use military aircraft because of the danger of hijackings in commercial planes, the White House said Thursday.
LBJ concerned about hijackings
Connie Stuart, staff director for Mrs. Nixon, said Johnson wrote a memo urging the Nixons and future presidential families to use government planes even on private trips. He made the recommendations for the "safety of the First Family and because of hijackings," Mrs. Stuart said.
Mrs. Nixon, her staff, and 35 reporters, will use one of the presidential jets during a five-day swing of college campuses next week. "Those in charge of security . . . feel it is proper," Mrs. Stuart said.
Newark teachers ratify contract
NEWARK, N.J. (UPI) — Newark teachers ratified by acclamation Wednesday night a new contract with the city, ending the longest school strike in New Jersey's history.
Union officials announced immediately after the vote approving the 3.5 million contract that teachers would go back to their classrooms today.
The settlement granted an average salary hike of $2,200 establishing a range of $8,000 for beginning teachers to $13,100 for experienced teachers with a bachelor's degree.
The money issue was settled shortly after the strike began, but positions hardened on both sides over the question of settling grievances and promotions by seniority.
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prevent them. The transport Workers Federation is affiliated with unions in every area of the transport industry in 80 nations.
The pilots federation, in announcing the strike threat, said final decision on the strike would be put off at least until the group's annual meeting here March 11.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon explained to Congress Thursday how he wants to save $2.5 billion a year by eliminating or reducing some low-priority federal programs, starting with the tea-tasters.
Nixon wants to eliminate tea-tasters
In a special message to the House and Senate, Nixon outlined 57 "savings actions" he wanted to take to help him attain the $1.3 billion surplus he wants in the federal budget for the year beginning July 1.
Nixon conceded that most of the programs he singled out as having "outlived their usefulness or need drastic revamping" were strongly supported by special interest groups. He predicted resistance to many of the changes and urged Congress' help.
He said many of the programs involved were just "a drop in the bucket" in the $200.8 billion budget he proposed for fiscal 1971 but said the costs added up
"As an extreme example," Nixon said, "the government since 1897 has had a special board of tea-tasters. At one time in the dim past, there may have been reason to single out tea for such special taste tests, but that reason no longer exists.
"Nevertheless," Nixon added, "a separate tea-tasting board has gone right along, at the taxpayers' expense, because nobody took the trouble to take a hard look at why it was in existence."
The Israeli army spokesman said the three MIG kills were scored in a dogfight 75 miles north of Cairo. Earlier, Israelis planes blasted another Egyptian SAM base 19 miles west of Cairo, according to Israeli authorities.
The tea-tasting program costs $100,000 a year.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Air Force Thursday asked eight companies to prepare designs for a new fighter aircraft it never expects to use.
Companies asked to submit design and development proposals were: Fairchild Hiller Corp., Bay Shore, N.Y.; General Dynamics Corp., Fort Worth, Tex.; LTV Aerospace Corp., Dallas, Tex.; Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Burbank, Calif.; McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis, Mo.; Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, N.Y.; North American Rockwell, Inc., Anaheim, Calif., and Northrop Corp., Hawthorne, Calif.
The international fighter will be similar to the F5. Since 1965, more than 1,100 F5s have gone to 16 nations, including South Vietnam.
The new plane is designed to meet the needs of American allies and probably will never be put into the Air Force inventory.
Plane designs sought but won't be used
Egyptian planes launched the daylong aerial action Thursday morning, attacking Israeli outposts along the northern sector
Democrats without chairman
O'Brien cited the lack of a consensus for his refusal to take the job he held after former
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Lawrence O'Brien, facing opposition from Democratic governors angry because they hadn't been consulted, rejected Thursday an offer to resume the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey got the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
Humphrey, head of the party, later accepted an invitation by the Democratic governors to discuss a new chairman at a breakfast meeting here Friday. At first Humphrey had not planned to attend, but he changed his mind at the last minute Thursday.