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Israeli and Egyptian tanks fought fiercely along the Suez Canal yesterday in what has become the biggest and perhaps the most decisive battle in the Middle East...
...Israel reported that it fought "the biggest armored clash" in its military history yesterday along the Suez Canal...
...Sunday morning, after nearly a day of intense fighting, Israeli forces had seized the initiative on both fronts. The Egyptians began to fall back, having failed to put enough tanks across the canal during the night. They also failed to dent Israel's air supremacy, and in the early hours of the second day of fighting, the Egyptian air force did not even take to the air to support ground troops. Israeli planes penetrated deep into Egypt, knocking out missile systems and other defenses. Defense Minister Dayan said that the mop-up might take several days, but he predicted...
Sadat himself did little to close this credibility gap. As a result, friends and enemies alike long ago decided that his calls for confrontation were insincere. For one thing, Egypt seemed to be pathetically ill-prepared for any battle, militarily or economically. The troops mobilized along the Suez Canal seemed to be in uniform as much to keep many of them out of civilian unemployment statistics as to harass Israel. Largely because of faulty distribution facilities, there were shortages of everything from cooking oil to the tomatoes that Egyptians love. Corruption was rampant, protests increased, and repression followed. When university...
Even before the Six-Day War of 1967 shut down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise...