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...third week of the war. They dug in south of the city and set up observation posts on a 600-ft. peak of the Ataka range. From there they surveyed and controlled the entire Bay of Suez area. Since the war ended there have been occasional artillery and armor skirmishes. In the past two weeks, however, when it became apparent that the Israelis would be leaving, the shooting stopped and both sides went fishing...
...since Nye's death in 1960 the M.P. from his old constituency of Ebbw Vale, has completed what is obviously a labor of love, with personal insights and inside information rarely available to a political biographer. He depicts, to be sure, a Nye in shining armor. He also makes clear that with Bevan's demise the fire went out of the belly of British socialism...
...political complication on either side was the same: what diplomats refer to as linkage. Israel was prepared to pull back 20 miles from the Suez Canal to positions at Sinai's Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, Jerusalem expected Egypt to thin out its armor and artillery in Sinai, reopen the Suez Canal and, as a buffer, repopulate its ports of Ismailia, Suez and Port Said with civilians who fled the bitter cross-canal bombardments of the post-1967 war of attrition. Israel also insisted that Egypt issue a declaration forswearing further belligerency. For its part, Egypt wanted Israel...
...fact, after losing 4-6 to Brown and 2-5 to Yale, as well as tying St. Lawrence 5-5, one might say that this year's Big Red team is almost human. There are indeed chinks in that armor that guards the goal mouth, to the tune of 38 goals-against in ten games this season. (For you non-math majors, that's nearly 4 goals a game...
...disengagement. Under it, Israeli forces now spread across Sinai and onto the west bank of the Suez Canal would withdraw in stages to positions around the defensible Mitla and Giddi passes. In return, the Israelis expected Egypt to withdraw its Second and Third armies from Sinai along with armor, artillery and missiles and replace them with only "symbolic police forces." Between the two would be interposed United Nations forces similar to those now attempting to maintain the cease-fire around Suez City on the west bank. Such an arrangement would leave the Egyptians proudly in Sinai and at the same...