Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, June 6, 1967

Airport

A vision of jet service within a year at Muscogee Airport faded quickly today when Federal Aviation Agency officials said the cost of clearing approaches for a projected 6,500-foot runway is estimated at $1.3 million. Cost of clearing all obstructions on the northeast approach alone is estimated at $900,000.

Rusk Bites Back

Secretary of State Dean Rusk accused Cairo today of malicious lying in its report of U.S. air activity on the Israeli side in the Mideast war. The secretary, biting off his words in a brief meeting with newsmen after a conference with President Johnson on the flaring Arab-Israeli fighting, avoided pronouncing the word “lie.” But he used most of its definitions in saying the report was “invented for some purpose yet to be ascertained.”

Mideast

For 20 years the United Nations has been trying to solve the Middle East problem. Many believe it to be insoluble because of its long history of conflict between the Jews and the Arabs.

Some say the problem dates back to when the Hebrew patriarch Abraham and his tribesmen trekked across the Arabian Desert and settled in Canaan.

This story was originally published June 5, 2017 at 4:50 PM with the headline "Looking Back."