Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt was "an immaculate war." In London Defense Minister Antony Head announced that British casualties "did not exceed 85, of whom not more than 20 were killed." And from the beginning the Anglo-French high command emphasized the careful concentration on purely military targets, the deliberate effort to spare Egyptian lives and property...
Seen face to face, it was not that kind of war at all. "In normal times." cabled TIME Correspondent Frank White last week, "the Egyptian General Hospital at Port Said can take care of 40 patients in each of its eight wards. Last Wednesday night when I visited the hospital it had no light, no water, no food and no medical supplies. According to the chief surgeon, Dr. Ezzeldine Hoseny. more than 500 Egyptians had died in his hospital during the two days of fighting in Port Said. At one point corpses were piled nearly as high...
...been an immaculate war. it had nonetheless-at least to the British and French way of thinking-been a highly satisfactory one. The British, whose regard for the fighting qualities of "Gyppos" has never been high, saw little reason to change their estimates. Although the Egyptian air force, according to R.A.F. estimates, outnumbered available "allied" aircraft two to one. it managed to mount only two fighter sorties against the British and French during the entire campaign. Some of Nasser's 50 Soviet-built Ilyushin bombers-perhaps as many as half-were believed to have been flown off to Saudi...
Surrender Reversed. Given so much time to brace itself, even a second-class army should have been able to wipe out an unsupported landing by two battalions of paratroopers. Instead, the Egyptian army left Port Said insufficiently garrisoned and such troops as were there, after a gallant but ineffective initial resistance, rapidly became disorganized. By afternoon of the first day of fighting General Mohammed Riad, governor of Port Said, was ready to talk surrender (a fact Anthony Eden announced to a cheering House of Commons). But when he telephoned Cairo for permission, he was told: No surrender; Port Said must...
...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's liberation army, some of them children no more than twelve years old. Occasionally Hawker Hunter jets, called in for close support, swooped down to send their rockets smashing into a strong point. By the time the fighting ended much of Port Said...