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Instead next morning allied planes and ships began to soften up Port Said for a seaborne landing. When the bombardment ended, commandos, more paratroopers and armor began to pour ashore. (One Royal Marine Commando, 500 strong, made the trip from ship to shore by helicopter, thereby scoring a first in the history of amphibious warfare.) Some headed down the canal, got within 20 miles of Ismailia before the cease-fire took effect. Others, supported by tanks, probed through the streets of Port Said slowly cleaning out stubbornly resisting remnants of the Egyptian army and the irregulars of Nasser...
Tuesday at dawn, 24 hours after the airborne troops hit the silk, a force of 30,000 British commandos and French commando units, with tanks, stormed ashore and into Port Said and Port Fuad...
Earlier Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Assembly that his country's sole object in invading Egypt on Monday was put an end to the constant pressure of commando raids that have threatened Israel's existance over the last eight years...
...liquor, Honorman McLaughlin had drunkenly gotten into an armed brawl with the wrong enemy, his commanding officer, Major Henry Checklou. McLaughlin's beef: Checklou was always taunting him about that medal. On the other hand, the one-man army of World War II. ex-Army Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, credited with dispatching 40 Nazi soldiers to the glory of the Third Reich, landed a job after long spells of sickness and penury (TIME, Oct. 1). Kelly, taken on .by a St. Louis scrap-metal outfit as a contact man. said happily: "I'm among friends here...
...Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, 40 Eisenhower advocates from the capital area, 60 more brought in from around the U.S. by Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon, gathered for a "press conference." Though Ike knew that his audience (it included ex-Yankee Phil Rizzuto, John Roosevelt, Medal of Honorman "Commando" Kelly, onetime Ambassador Lewis Douglas) was sympathetic, questions had not been screened...