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...Giddi passes, the sites of bitter battles in three wars between Israel and Egypt, the Israeli government last week flew U.S. newsmen accompanying Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by helicopter to a promontory on the Sinai front from which they could see all the way to the Suez Canal. Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, who was on the helicopter tour, and TIME'S Daniel Drooz, who earlier made a visit to the vital passes, reported on the scene...
...Mitla Pass, cabled Schecter, is no narrow cowboy-and-Indian ambush site. It stretches for 15 miles between granite outcroppings, the quickest route into the Sinai from the canal. With the low ground beneath him and the demilitarized zone nine miles in front of him, General Jacob ("Jacke") Evan, 40, made his pitch, stressing the importance of controlling the high ground and maintaining an effective "electronic alert." Evan, deputy commander of Israel's southern front and an armored expert who fought at Mitla Pass in '67, declined to explain what he meant by the term, but Israeli radar...
...Egyptians on their side of the demilitarized zone. Israeli soldiers man the crow's-nest continually, logging every movement on the other side. The Israelis estimate that the Egyptians have built enough bunkers for a force of five to seven infantry divisions, which could be transported across the canal within six hours, along with fire-control centers and launching sites on the east bank of the canal. In addition, there are at least 250 artillery pits and 75 armored personnel carriers, many of them equipped with Sagger antitank missiles...
Lodge described the Guatamalass incident as "non-violent and implemented along the lines of chicanery and other unpleasentries. The world is a rough, tough place. The Coach were coming into Gudtamals. Their presence threstened the canal, I have forgotton the details," he said...
...south, where 239 people lost their lives last month in the severest floods in memory, voters took to boats of every kind to get to the polls. In the remote northern provinces, villagers could be seen inching across the hills on elephants to cast their ballots. Along a canal near the Burmese border, a tiger leaped into a boatload of nine voters, seriously mauling one person before fleeing into the jungle. It was later hunted down by police...