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...spur U.J.A. donations in the U.S., Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...terrorists, who later identified themselves as Palestinian guerrillas, first struck at the Rome airport's security checkpoint during the early afternoon rush hour. "I was heading toward the security check, and up front I saw a tall, well-dressed young man," a British stewardess recalled. "As he approached the guards, he put his hand in his pocket and took out a pistol." Instantly, his companions-perhaps as many as seven -opened their overnight bags, took out submachine guns and began to spray gunfire in every direction...
...Kilometer 101," the United Nations checkpoint along the Cairo-Suez road, stood once again at the crossroads between peace and war in the Middle East...
When blue-helmeted Finnish troops moved in to take over one checkpoint, they got into fistfights with the adamant Israelis. The Finns were winning until the Israelis brought up armored cars. A party of 114 journalists who sought to visit Suez City were also halted by the Israelis. "I was eyeball to eyeball with a shaggy Israeli holding his rifle at the ready," reported TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who was in the group. "I told him I was going to Suez. And he told me in no uncertain terms, 'I will not let you pass...
Just north of Great Bitter Lake, a U.N. station wagon drove up to a military police checkpoint. Vast clouds of dust, churned up by tank trailers, had all but obscured the "U.N." that had been painted on the once white vehicle. An Irish officer in a powder-blue beret shook his head. "How can we fix the lines as they were on Oct. 22 [the day of the first Security Council truce]? None of us were here then. We don't know where the parties were, and you can't believe either side. Our business...