Word: canallers
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...world by announcing that Soviet pilots were aloft with loaded cannon over Egypt. Actually, more than 100 Soviet pilots have been flying in Egypt for at least two years, training Egyptian pilots. The new factor is that they have begun to patrol a picket line west of the canal and over Egyptian cities...
...Soviets, the Israelis have not flown deep-penetration raids into Egypt since April 13. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has openly declared that Israel must seek a coexistence with the Soviets in the skies above Egypt. By that he means that Israel will restrict its raids to the immediate canal area if the Soviets will keep their aircraft only over Egyptian cities. So far, that uneasy modus vivendi has worked...
...behemoths in the mid-1960s, when prices were 40% lower than now. Shell transports oil for significantly less than it would have to pay with smaller tankers. It is also one of the few oil majors with a fleet big enough to compensate for the closing of the Suez Canal...
...heard from several people that many Egyptian prisoners didn't want to leave the Israeli camps, where they were getting enough to cat. It is also rumored that, when these Egyptians were released by the Israelis, they were shot by their own men as they swam across the canal to return home, for the Egyptian army did not want the country to know what really happened...
Critics also fear that the canal may pollute groundwater, including the famed Silver Springs, only four miles away from the waterway. Others predict that the Corps of Engineers will eventually try to add other northward canal routes, cutting across the unspoiled Suwannee River...