Word: canalizes
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...surge of Egyptians was too much for the canal defenders, a thin band of regular-army forces reduced that weekend by Yom Kippur passes. "My God," said a radioman in one bunker reporting back to Israel's secondary defenses ten miles to the rear, "it's like the Chinese coming across." Another forward observer reported that "hundreds, thousands of Egyptians are swimming toward our fort. We need reinforcements quickly...
...Egyptians paused hardly at all, sweeping over Israel's vaunted Bar-Lev defense line anchored just beyond the east bank. They had obviously prepared well and arduously. "We trained for this mission for a long time," one wounded soldier told newsmen as he was carried back across the canal. "Each of us knew by heart what he was supposed...
...involved some foolhardiness, it also involved a great deal of courage on the part of Sadat." As the attacking Egyptians pushed out onto the desert and Israeli troops fell back, Egypt poured two armored divisions and one mechanized infantry division into Sinai. Among the tanks crossing the canal were T-62s, the hottest item in Moscow's armored supply kit. The Soviets presumably were curious to see how the T-62-previously untested in battle-would do against the Israelis...
...moments of light or dark humor, and the latest Mideast battle is no exception. In the sand near the canal, an Israeli tank-unit commander counted his vehicles at dawn and discovered that he had one too many. An Egyptian armored personnel carrier, lost in the desert night, had attached itself to the column. The Israelis destroyed it before the Egyptian crew discovered where they were...
...expected from an attempt to crush the Arab units on the northern front and rout the Egyptians from the Sinai, and with no clear military necessity to do so, Israel may feel it can do no less. As long as the Egyptians remained on the east bank of the canal, Israel faced the threat of fighting long into the future. It also had to worry whether the Arabs would misinterpret an Israeli decision not to drive the Egyptians from the Sinai. The Arabs could conclude that Israel was too weak for the task, encouraging Arab hawks to try to capture...