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...well as Soviet technicians to operate them. Ten to 15 SA3 sites have already been detected around Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan High Dam. Israel's tactic at the moment is to ignore distant installations but to attack possible sites within 15 miles of the Suez Canal. While bombing such sites last week, Israeli planes were intercepted by Egyptian MIG-21s. Four MIGs were downed in one running dogfight and five in another, the biggest bag for Israel's air force in six months...
...Alexandria before there were SA-3s-I am not sure we won't go one day-because we simply have not found it necessary to bomb these places. They are civilian targets. But along the Suez Canal, I don't care who is manning the weapons. We must be in a position where air superiority along the canal is ours...
Aside from acts of sabotage by terrorists within Israel, there were exchanges of fire along the Suez Canal that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded eleven. Israeli commandos also staged a swift raid on Egyptian units across the canal, and reported killing eight men while losing two. Israeli regulars and Arab guerrillas fought a series of skirmishes along Israel's border with both Lebanon and Syria. Israel admitted suffering two dead and 13 wounded but claimed seven more enemy casualties. Twice on the Jordanian front, Israelis spotted guerrilla ambushes and broke them up with shellfire...
...west, though bitter artillery duels across the Suez Canal continued, the war of attrition between Egypt and Israel appeared to have eased slightly. Both sides continued jet attacks, but the planes hit only scattered military targets. In a dogfight over the northern Nile delta, Israeli pilots claimed two MIG-21s downed with cannon fire-the 73rd and 74th kills of Egyptian planes since...
...demanded to revenge Abu Zabal, Nasser revealed, he had refused on the ground that he did not "take decisions under the influence of emotion." Nonetheless, low-flying Egyptian jets-which do not have the range to hit cities in Israel and return to base -bombed Israeli positions along the canal...