Word: bridgehead
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...dirtied the blue sky over the Suez Canal last week, and the thud of explosives shattered the desert stillness. They were the tocsins of peace, not war The smoke was from stores being burned by the 40,000-man Israeli force before it withdrew tanks and guns from a bridgehead west of the canal captured last October. The explosions were from the captured or unused ammunition and mines that were being destroyed...
...United States, viewing Israel as a bridgehead of Western sentiment--"a bulwark against the non-Christian world," right-wing publisher William Loeb once called it--was happy to provide Israel with most of the arms and diplomatic support it needed. The Soviet Union, evidently sharing the United States' view, was happy not only to replace the U.S. as Egypt's supplier of arms and help with the Aswan Dam when John Foster Dulles grew disgusted with Egyptian president Nasser's neutralism and nationalizations, but also to go the United States one better, sending technicians where the United States sent arms...
What apparently prompted Sharon to speak out was a series of stories from Tel Aviv suggesting that the hero of the Suez crossing had himself disobeyed orders and erred by pushing westward to Cairo too quickly, rather than widening the bridgehead to the north and south. Sharon became convinced that he was being sabotaged by his superiors when Labor Union Secretary Yitzhak Ben-Aharon called the general "a nobody trying to build up a career...
...bank was swarming with men and machines. The litter of blackened tanks and trucks of both ar mies and the stench of rotting corpses in the canal attested to the fierceness of the battle that had produced this new "bulge" in Egypt. We were soon speeding away from the bridgehead on a route that was to bring us directly into contact with the enemy forces...
...turned out, there still was fighting left to do. On the way back to the Israeli bridgehead, we ran into four Egyptian tanks. Three of them were knocked out with no Israeli losses. "It is good to see the enemy burning," Tallo said. Later, he spotted a large Egyptian force of tanks, infantry, artillery and mobile missiles moving west into an Israeli position. He immediately directed his force against them. We had to leave in the middle of the battle to start the long journey back to the bridgehead...