INDEXoffensive across canal, 53, 56, 84, 93,
142, 173; and Poland, 19; reshuffles of
Eg yptian government, 34–5, 127–8;
and Scud missiles, 107; “secret visit” to
Moscow, January, 1970, xv, 113–4, 122,
125–6, 131–2, 144, 146–53, 164–6,
410n66; and sonic boom incident,
115–6, 120–1; and Soviet advisers,
34–6, 42–3, 53, 93–4, 107; and Soviet
aircraft, 45–7; Soviet airlift, 5; and
Soviet bases in Eg ypt, 47; and Soviet
intervention, xv, 26–7, 88, 113–4,
119–20, 130, 133, 140, 143, 147, 162,
166, 214, 424n5; Soviet medical
treatment, 73–4, 125–6, 128; and
Soviet military delegations, 24–6, 33,
37, 140, 143; and Tito, 7; and United
States, 10, 36–7, 70, 128–9, 142,
156–7, 178, 404n14; and USSR, xiv,
xvi, 3, 10, 17–8, 24, 59, 64, 82–3, 94,
105, 127–9, 142, 403n2, 412n2; visit to
USSR, July 1970, 127, 175–8; visits to
USSR, summer 1968, 67–9, 73–4,
425n38; and War of Attrition, xvi, 64,
70, 77, 88, 101, 104, 108, 110, 117–8,
138, 142, 158, 167, 397n17; and
Warsaw Pact, 5, 17, 48, 151–2
Nastenko, Yury (Soviet air officer), 123–4,
137, 141, 155, 161–3, 170
Nastoychivy (Soviet navy destroyer), 30
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO,
United States), 200–1, 424n15
Nativ. See Lishkat ha-Qesher
NATO, 7, 31, 61, 79, 81, 213, 238–9, 249,
281, 373–4n26–27, 377n86, 385n37,
433–4n36, 39
Nazi Germany, xxix, 4, 29, 54–5, 63, 154.
See also East Germany ; West Germany
Ne’eman, Ra’anan (IAF pilot), 196, 423n49
Nepobedimy, Sergey (Soviet weapon
designer), 120–1, 343
New York Times (NYT), 10, 41, 95, 214,
233, 245, 281, 298
Nike-Hercules (US anti-aircraft missile),
230, 253
Nikiforov, Yevgeny (Soviet weapon
designer), 258–9, 277–8, 439n19
Nikolaev, USSR, 136, 154, 156, 190, 208,
213, 351, 465n18
Nixon, Richard (US president), and
Brezhnez, xviii, 240, 252, 263, 284–5,
305, 312, 319–20, 352, 465n28; and de
Gaulle, 104; and Dobrynin, 103, 169
179, 180, 217, 228, 253; and Eban, 104;
and Gromyko, 247, 249, 252, 336; and
Hafez Ismail, 310; and “interim
decision” not to rearm Israel, 158; and
Kissinger, 10, 101–3, 125, 149, 152,
159, 169, 179–80, 200, 202, 216, 218,
247, 249, 252–3, 255, 259, 263–4,
305–6, 307–8, 316, 318, 336, 352–4,
387n8, 424n9, 453n33, 454n51; and
Meir, 256, 315; memo from
Sonnenfeldt, 149; message from
Kosygin, 149, 152–3, 181; Moscow
summit, 217, 263–4; and Nasser, 128,
404n14; on Soviet advance in Eg ypt,
161, 204; and pressure to demand Israeli
withdrawal, 105; protest from
Ambassador Beam, 181; and rearming
Israel, 164, 180–1, 203, 352, 315,
419n47; and Rogers, 231–2, 397n10;
and Rusk, 69; and Sadat, 233; and San
Clemente summit, 293–5, 317–20; and
Soviet Middle East initiative, 102; and
State Department initiative, 232–3; and
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(SALT), 102; and surprise at Eg yptian
ceasefire decision, 218; and US Jews,
102, 248; and Vietnam, 305; and visit to
China, 254; and Vorontsov, 310; and
Watergate, 308
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 67–71,
97