Word: canals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action and political maneuvering in the warring nations both for our regular stories and for this week's special section. Correspondent William Marmon drove from Jerusalem to the Sinai Peninsula and sent eyewitness reports of the fighting from an Israeli position less than five miles from the Suez Canal. He returned to Jerusalem at night, "riding in darkness for hours because of the danger of air attacks." As a result of the blackout, there were such terrible accidents along the way, he says, "that I wondered if Egyptian air strikes would have been any more destructive...
...Middle East. At week's end the outcome was in doubt, though the tide of battle seemed to be turning slowly in favor of the Israelis. While fighting continued in the Sinai, Israel managed to put a force of 15,000 men and 350 tanks across the Suez Canal, where it smashed SAM sites and artillery positions along the western bank and fought its way 15 miles into Egypt in the direction of Cairo about 60 miles away. Unless the Egyptians could check the Israeli advance in the west, the action there was bound to lead to the erosion...
...also, and perhaps more importantly, a missile battle. The Egyptians' Soviet-built SA2, SA3 and new, mobile SA-6 and SA-7 missiles were planted on both banks of the canal. With their high-technology controls, the SAMs held the key to victory or defeat. The Israelis, who had easily established air superiority in the previous Middle East war, had to destroy this fortress of SAMs and artillery. In the first week of the war, Israel had lost about one-fourth of its air force; most of the planes had been shot down by SAMs. Since a direct aerial...
...other Middle East action, Israeli officers claimed their men had taken over most of Suez city at the southern end of the 103-mile-long Suez Canal...
Gunfire broke out across the Suez Canal as Egyptian forces on the east bank apparently began shelling their own city to drive out the Israelis...