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...middle of last week, 791 Swedes, Finns, Irishmen and Austrians from the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus had picked their way through heavily mined areas to positions between the Egyptian and Israeli armies along the Suez Canal. The first and most difficult objective of this vanguard of what is expected to be a 7,000-man United Nations Emergency Force was to locate the cease-fire line on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Last week TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin visited the U.N. forces and sent this report...
Before the war began, the captain had been stationed at one of the U.N. observer posts along the canal. "Now my post is mobile," he said with a grin. "We have six patrols moving up and down the canal." In the back of the vehicle were a couple of days' rations of food and water, and bedding for him and two fellow officers...
...into Israeli-held territory in the direction of the city of Suez. The drivers were U.N. noncommissioned officers. About ten miles north of Suez, a truck with cartons of food and cigarettes had arrived at U.N. observation post Kilo-a collection of whitewashed shacks on the edge of the canal. There we talked with Vienna-born Joseph Nekhan, 27, a first lieutenant in an Austrian tank battalion who had been seconded to the U.N. Emergency Force. Below him, Egyptian soldiers in beige work clothes carried cartons from the trucks to a makeshift wharf. Israeli officers spot-checked the boxes...
...going much better now," said Nekhan. "When we came here on Sunday with the first truck, we were not sure how to make contact with the Egyptians across the canal. So we raised our U.N. flag, took a bullhorn and started calling them in English, Russian, German, Arabic and French. We got no response until we spoke in French. We shouted. This is the U.N. We have supplies to deliver. We have water for you.' When we said water in French we got a reply. That was the key word...
...itself and the Warsaw Pact nations largely in terms of tanks and aircraft. NATO does not seem to have paid as much attention to antitank missiles as has the U.S.S.R. Moreover, it has generally regarded surface-to-air missiles as primarily defensive weapons. The Egyptian thrust across the Suez Canal demonstrated that these missiles can also play an offensive role, enabling an attacking force to establish and hold a beachhead. With the extremely mobile SA-6, beachheads can be expanded by slowly moving the missiles forward, thus increasing the area protected from aerial assault by their umbrella...