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(Lc'I:O.!:--Tlz COVENE 7>T DT RT: :1:" ? I:.i >ITIST7 HEAT> WADNS
TODAY THAT THE SOVIET UNION IS PRESSING ON WITH A WORLD-WIDE
POWER BUILDUP. THE GOVERNMENT HAS PLEDGED FULL SCALE BRITISH.
SUPPORT TO ALLIED COUNTERMEASURES, BUT THE WHITE PAPER POLICY
STATEMENT ALSO DISCLOSES A 15. CM) MILLION DOLLAR CUT IN DEFENSE
SPENDING COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR.
THE WHITE PAPER SAYS SUCCESS OF THE SOVIET POLICY ''WILL. PE
AT THE EXPENSE OF WESTERN POLITICAL INTERESTS.- IT CAN ALSO
PUT INCR EASING Gi.Y AT R ISK IMPOpTANT WESTER N ECONOMIC I NTE RESTS. '
(SAIGON3--FIGHTING IS PICKING UP II LAOS. SOUTH VIETNAMESE
FORCES FOUGHT THREE MAJOR BATTLES BEFORE DAWN TODAY AND WITHSTOOD
A 100-ROUND MO
TAR PARRAGE AND A GROUND ASSAULT ON ONE OF THEIR
FIRE BASES*. HEADQUARTERS SAID L3 NORTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS WER Z
KILLED IN THE THREE CLASHES. SOUTH VIETNAMESE CASUAL TIES WERE
PUT AT 'O WOUNDED.
NORTH VIETNAMESE GUNNERS ALSO SHELLED TWO AMERICAN! POSITIONS
IN NORTHERN SOUTH VIETNAM. THE U-S COMMAND SAID 13 AMERICANS
WERE WOUNDED. THE COMMAND ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT A BIG ARMY CHINOOK
HELICOPTER CRASHED AND WAS DESTROYED MONDAY NI GHT NINE MILES
SOUTHEAST OF HUE (HwAY;. FIVE AMERICANS WERE KILLED. THE COMMAND
SAID IT DID NOT KNOW. THE CAUSE OF THZ CRASH.
CCAIRO)--THE SEI-OFFICIAL EGYPTIAN NEWSPAPER AL AHRAX SAYS
EGYPT HAS INDICATED TO U-N MEDIATOR GJNNAR JARRING
(G00'-NAP2 YAHR'-PING) IT WOULD IE WILLiIC ''TO DISCUSS
ARRANGEMENTS PERTINENT TO PEACE'' WITH ISRAEL AFTER AL? PROVISIONS
OF THE U-N SECURITY COUNCIL MIDDLE EAST RESOLUTION 0.F 1VG7 A^E
CARRIED OUT.
_ THE RESOLUTION PROVIDES FOP ARAB PRCOGNITION OR ISRAEl 'S RIGHT
TO EXIST WITH SECURE AND RECJGNIZrD BOUNDARIES; AN END TO ARAB
PE+ LIGERENCY. ISRAELI RIGHTS OF : AIGATION T;IROUCH THE GULF OF
AOABA (AH'-KAVI-BU; AND THE SUEZ CANAL AND A JUST SOLUTION OF
THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: World news summary], script, February 17, 1971, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1415042/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.