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...what is this, Dizengoff Street?" yelled one Israeli soldier, referring to Tel Aviv's cafe-filled main street. He was surprised to see journalists in civilian clothes on the newly secured Israeli bridgehead in Egypt. We, however, were nervous. Armed only with pink press passes, tourniquet bandages and surplus broadbrimmed British helmets (which were a source of amusement to Israeli soldiers, who wear snug-fitting U.S.-style helmets), we joked about our lack of passports and the Geneva Convention regulations concerning captured journalists...
...Zayyat: Our forces will stop when they've liberated the territory of Egypt. Same with Syria. If you're asking if we're going all the way to Tel Aviv, the answer...
...cargo planes. Prevented by Spain from using U.S. bases there during the crisis, the American transports refueled at Lajes Field in the Portuguese Azores, then flew on to Israel. The Defense Department stationed what it called a "limited" number of Air Force logistics experts in Tel Aviv to help unload antiaircraft and antitank missiles, 105-mm. shells, bombs and radar jammers...
...battle rages distantly and violently on both sides of the canal, anyone who questions Israel's wisdom in having hung onto the vast uninhabited buffer space that it seized in the Sinai apparently cannot now get much of a hearing in the streets of Tel Aviv. The answer that will not be listened to is really a question: Would the fourth round of fighting have come so soon, and would it have been fought with such Arab tenacity, had not the Egyptians felt a just grievance at the loss of their lands east of Suez, and believed that what...
Israel has provided 80 escort officers, including the movie star Haim Topol, to act as translators and tour guides to combat zones approved by Israeli security. As an added fillip, the military press liaison runs daily tourist buses from Tel Aviv to the Golan Heights, but this service is unpopular with many reporters. "I wouldn't get into one of those coffins with masses of correspondents," says New York Times Correspondent Terence Smith. Indeed, on one trip, bus drivers ventured too close to the battle line and came under Syrian air and artillery attack. Only poor marksmanship averted...