Word: egyptians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cease-fire on the existing lines of Oct. 13, Kissinger was very pleased and contacted the U.S. delegation at the UN to prepare for this. He now wanted to make quite sure that it was so. He wanted to hear it from me. Kissinger had been told by the Egyptian National Security adviser in Paris early in 1972 that the Soviet Union had no power to speak for Egypt-and this fact was officially transmitted to the United States. Kissinger had therefore been shocked when I conveyed my reply: Please tell Kissinger that this never took place. I haven...
...later came to know that the U.S. satellite which had begun to transmit information, hour by hour, to the Israelis since they sent out their "Save Israel" message, now informed them that the Egyptians had taken their Armored Division 21 across to the East Bank of the Canal in an attempt to relieve the pressure on Syria at President [Hafez] Assad's request. I also knew that the Pentagon advised the Israelis to try a counterattack to save their force in Sinai. In his Memoirs, the Israeli Chief of Staff, during the October War, tried to absolve himself...
...this day and won't receive any. Israel, even without demanding it, received hourly information from the Pentagon, provided until this moment by the American satellite. The United States was only too willing to supply her with this because the satellite had shown that the fighting on the Egyptian front was not in Israel's favor, and because Dayan had admitted that the road from Sinai to Tel-Aviv now lay open...
...from the Operations Room I became conscious of a serious development: the United States was using us for the air-bridge she now established to save Israel. El Arish became an airbase where colossal U.S. transport aircraft landed, loaded with tanks and sophisticated weapons. El Arish is an Egyptian city [90 miles east of the Suez Canal in Sinai, it was captured...
Early in the war, the Israeli U.S. Phantoms had fired a dozen rockets at the Egyptian SAM missiles but hit only the aerial of one battery, which was repaired