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...resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense, and then split into flying columns that sped north to El Quneitra and south to Boutmiye. In the south, airborne troopers leapfrogged in helicopters, quickly seizing one unsuspecting village after another, while an armored column thrust up the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: A Campaign for the Books | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

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