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Through his new friends in the Gezira Sporting Club, Lotz was able to set up a stable in the Abassiye Garrison and get a permanent pass to the camp. Later he trained his horses at a practice race track beside the armor depot near Heliopolis. All the while, he was relaying his gleanings back to Israel on a tiny transmitter he kept in a riding boot. Through German friends, he established that Egyptian rockets were not an immediate menace because their guidance systems were unreliable. He also learned that the Egyptians' HA-300 jet interceptora great worry...
Finally came the moment for which the caravan had gathered. Flying low over the Nile, four Soviet-built helicopters landed beside a palace on Gezira Island, the original headquarters of Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. From the lead copter, a flag-draped coffin was unloaded and strapped to a gun carriage pulled by six black horses. A funeral cortege formed, with a troop of lance-bearing cavalrymen leading the way. Six military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers...
...Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers at Agomy beach west of Alexandria. To one recent British visitor, however, Cairo is beginning to look like Moscow-on-the-Nile. "My God," he complained, "even the shopkeepers assume you speak Russian." At the Gezira Sporting Club, once a famous British watering spot, he observed a number of Russians as well as East Germans and Czechs "lying around the pool reading Pravda...
...close to the airport, said one diplomat, "nobody took much notice. This time they went outside to have a look." Within minutes of last week's raid, Cairo's Kasr el-Nil Street was thronged with women shoppers, intersections were jammed with traffic, and sculls from the Gezira Sporting Club were gliding along the glistening Nile...
Just about everything was there but a brass band. Military police in crisp red caps lined the road to the former royal villa on the edge of Gezira Island in the middle of the Nile in Cairo. One by one, twelve cars drew up to the door, and out of each stepped a neatly dressed civilian or high-ranking military officer, accompanied by a second officer and two soldiers. Inside the yellow stone villa, television cameras whirred and flashbulbs popped as the twelve men nodded quietly to friends and relatives, occasionally stopping to shake hands. Thus last week President Gamal...