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...reprimanded by Weizman (who later in the week was hospitalized with a broken ankle and bruises following a car accident). Top Israeli intelligence officials, however, shared Gur's concerns. They believe that Egypt has rebuilt fortifications and constructed new minefields in Sinai, stepped up military maneuvers across the Suez Canal, and carried out major exercises with the Russian-made SAM7 Strella missiles. In Washington, U.S. intelligence officials discounted the maneuver reports as "nothing new," and insisted that there had been no serious violations of the second Sinai accord reported by United Nations observers in the area...
...excesses of the past. In 1972, for example, he explained how an Egyptian attack on Israeli armored forces in Sinai had been aborted because of sudden "fog" over the Suez Canal. In fact, it had been a clear day, on which both sides could see forever...
Even as a youth, Egypt's Anwar Sadat, 58, had an elevated sense of his own destiny. At 14, he fell into an irrigation canal near his home village of Mit Abu el Kom. Saved from drowning, he was asked what his last thought had been as he went under the water. The answer: "If I drown, Egypt will have lost Anwar Sadat...
...asked Sadat how he compared this moment with the H-hour on Oct. 6, 1973, when he sent his army across the Suez Canal. He became serious and leaned forward. "I want to show that it would not have been necessary to do what we did in October of 1973 if [the Israelis] had responded to my diplomatic effort before...
...chilly night lighted by a half-moon in a starry sky, Sadat was flown by helicopter from his rest house in Ismailia on the Suez Canal to the military airport at Abu Suweir. About 50 local members of parliament and Sadat's Cabinet waited to see him off. Wearing a gray checked suit and a silvery tie, the President was beaming as he hopped down from the helicopter and bade farewell to its crew...