Word: canalizes
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Egypt charged that Israel had continued to attack Suez City on the southern end of the Suez Canal's west bank. it also alleged that Israel was refusing to allow U.N. observers access to the area...
...other Middle East action, Israeli officers claimed their men had taken over most of Suez city at the southern end of the 103-mile-long Suez Canal...
...early battlefield reports streaming from the fronts into the military headquarters in Egypt and Syria seemed too good to be true: light Israeli resistance at the Suez Canal and in the Golan Heights; Israeli reserves not mobilized; Israel's general population relaxed and praying in the synagogues. Yet the reports were accurate. The Arabs had accomplished what conventional wisdom had long insisted was nearly impossible - a surprise attack on Israel...
Military intelligence was aware that Egypt was increasing its troop strength along the canal, but it tended to accept Egyptian announcements that the buildup was a military maneuver. The Egyptians had held such maneuvers for the past ten years; there was no indication that this year was any different. Moreover, Cairo gave no hint of anything unusual. There were no air-raid drills, no stockpiling of materiel and no rhetoric aimed at preparing the Egyptian public for war. When Syria moved its troops ten miles forward from its secondary line to the 1967 Golan Heights cease-fire line...
Semprun's New Wave spy novel, accordingly, is sometimes hallucinatory, often irritating, always intricate. The opening is a microscopic examination of a scene by a Dutch canal bank. As Semprun's camera slowly pulls back it is Vermeer's View of Delft, hanging on its wall of the Mauritshuis in The Hague where it is being looked at by a man who thinks of himself as a spy, thinks of himself as being shadowed, and who may be a Spaniard, a businessman named Ramon Mercader, which happens also to be one of the names by which history...