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Shortly before noon one day last week, startled soldiers of the battle-tested Egyptian Second Army intercepted an Israeli bus that had broached their perimeter near the Suez Canal. While troops in command cars trained machine guns on the vehicle, an Egyptian colonel boarded it and discovered that his men had just captured, of all people, 28 prosperous young American business and professional men who were on a United Jewish Appeal fund-raising tour...
After seven hours of detention, broken by a snack of cheese and jelly sandwiches and Pepsi-Cola, the prisoners were released with apologies for having been inconvenienced. Recrossing the Suez Canal, they were airlifted to Tel Aviv by the Israelis for a reunion with anxious wives. The trip continued with a visit to the Golan Heights, but already it was obviously a vast success. After all, by now just about everyone who visits Israel on similar junkets gets a VIP excursion to the Golan Heights or the Jordan River or Sharm el Sheikh. But, except for last week...
Last week the remaining units of Israel's invasion force withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal. Emblazoned with signs saying GOODBYE AFRICA, HELLO TEL AVIV, tanks, halftracks and packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
Under the next and final phase of the withdrawal agreement, which is scheduled to be completed by March 5, the Israelis will pull back from the canal entirely, and a thinly manned line of Egyptians will secure the East Bank, thereby retaining for Cairo territory that it last controlled in 1967. In expectation of that symbolic gain, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat last week nailed the outcome of the war as "the first genuine Arab victory in the past 500 years." At President Sadat's side, significantly, was Libya's maverick strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi...
...Panamanians, the agreement promised, would have the canal-at some as yet unspecified time...