Word: ismailia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during aerial reconnaissance missions early the mornings of Aug. 8 and 9. According to Israeli analysts, the photos clearly showed that SA-2 and SA3 missile batteries had been moved roughly halfway inside the 32-mile-wide Egyptian cease-fire zone toward areas near the towns of Kantara and Ismailia (see map opposite). Altogether, eight batteries were installed, with some work completed on the second night after the truce was declared...
...more restrained Israelis also ventured into the canal's waters, but they were instructed to keep on their flak jackets. The ceasefire also allowed newsmen to view the devastation wrought on the Egyptian side of the canal by Israeli bombing and shelling. Reported TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs: "In Ismailia, the towering twelve-story Suez Canal Authority headquarters looks like a giant piece of Swiss cheese, shredded with shell holes. The railway yards were a mass of twisted wreckage. Tall palm trees had been blackened by napalm or broken off by shellfire...
Since business success stories in Egypt are rare, Osman has become something of a hero. Trained in engineering at the University of Cairo, he got his start in 1946 by borrowing supplies from shopkeepers in his home town of Ismailia to build a one-car garage. Profit: $15. He went on to construct schools and gained national attention in 1952, when, in a record 60 days, he rebuilt a village that had been destroyed by British troops in retaliation for guerrilla attacks. Expanding outside Egypt, he put up an airport in Saudi Arabia and the new Parliament building in Kuwait...