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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avoiding Disaster. Although the details were still obscured by censorship, the bridgehead made by an Israeli armored force across the southern sector of the canal may rank as the most brilliant military feat in the country's short but tempestuous history. In the end, Egypt may well have agreed to a ceasefire because it realized that to continue fighting would lead to another disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Brilliant Moves in a Final Battle | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

Enlarging their bridgehead on the west bank of the Suez Canal (TIME, Oct. 29), Israeli forces last week proceeded to neutralize, both militarily and politically, the dug-in Egyptian forces on the east bank. With at least 20,000 men and 500 tanks at their disposal on the southern portion of the west bank, the Israelis cut the vital highway between Suez and Cairo, encircled and later captured most of the city of Suez and pushed on to the port of Adabiya. In the process, they trapped the Egyptian Third Army, which was still in position on the east bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Brilliant Moves in a Final Battle | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

From William Marmon, with Israeli troops on the western bank of the Suez Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...Israeli presence was no joke. There was a traffic jam at the canal that stretched back for miles. Tanks, trucks and vans of every description-many with ON TO CAIRO scrawled on their sides-waited their turn to cross the bridges. The western bank was swarming with men and machines. The litter of blackened tanks and trucks of both ar mies and the stench of rotting corpses in the canal attested to the fierceness of the battle that had produced this new "bulge" in Egypt. We were soon speeding away from the bridgehead on a route that was to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...rapidly south and west toward the southern end of the Bitter Lakes. An access road leading to Cairo was strewn with wreckage caused by earlier Israeli air strikes; everywhere there were burnt-out supply and ammunition trucks and Egyptian dead. We finally reached a point 50 km. from the canal, the farthest penetration of Israeli forces into Egypt. Cairo was only 60 km. down the road. "We could be in Cairo for lunch," grunted Tallo. "There is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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