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...initial cease-fire between Israel and Egypt had hardly taken effect last August before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...took place at all. They may be right in their skepticism. But three months ago some of those same observers also expressed doubt when the first reports appeared that the Soviets and Egyptians were violating the Middle East cease-fire by moving scores of missiles up to the Suez Canal. That time they were dead wrong...
...consummate hawk was acting like a careful dove. In his speeches, Dayan was saying openly what other Israeli officials would only whisper privately: that Is rael should return to the Jarring talks in spite of the missiles. Dayan even suggested an Israeli pullback at Suez so that the canal could be opened again as a guarantee of peace...
Only three months ago, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan seemed the hardest of Israel's hardliners. Angered by Egypt's movement of missiles along the Suez Canal after the Middle East ceasefire began, Dayan adopted a rocklike stance. He would resign, he said, if Israeli United Nations Ambassador Josef Tekoah were allowed to continue peace discussions with U.N. Mediator Gunnar V. Jarring while the missiles were still in the canal zone...
Lotz's greatest accomplishment was his verification that the Shaloufa rocket site, near Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal, was a genuine base and not a dummy. Posing as tourists on a fishing trip, the Lotzes drove toward the camp and managed to get themselves arrested. "I was afraid they would simply send us away," says Lotz. "Fortunately, they took us straight into the base." Once there, Lotz talked the commandant into calling his old friend Brigadier General Fuad Osman, a highly placed Egyptian intelligence officer. The conversation, as Lotz recalls...