Premier David Ben Gurion, accompanied by members of the Cabinet and high ranking military officers, today inspected new weapons acquired by the Israel Army and brought to the Jewish state recently, it was revealed this afternoon by an army spokesman.
(The New York Herald Tribune today reports from Beirut that “the Arab press is being kept busy knocking down rumors of Arab-Israeli peace feelers.” These feelers emanate from Egypt, and the report emphasizes that “even there they lack open endorsement from responsible officials.”)
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