Word: ismailia
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...spur U.J.A. donations in the U.S., Israeli officials had sent the "young leadership group" on a supposedly routine bus trip through the captured Sinai territory that Israel is about to relinquish. After a picture-taking session at a United Nations checkpoint, however, the bus strayed too far down the Ismailia-Tassa road and into Egyptian hands...
...hard to decide whether captors or captives were more flustered. The U.J.A. fund raisers were kept aboard their bus for two hours by Egyptian soldiers while the colonel tried to decide what to do with his catch. Finally, he decided that the group should go to army headquarters in Ismailia for interrogation and asked them to blindfold themselves with handkerchiefs or coats. "Most of us used handkerchiefs," said Howard Stone, a full-time U.J.A. official in New York City. "It was easier to peek that way." Cracked one American as the bus drove off: "Now remember, you are only required...
...Ismailia, the Egyptians confiscated the prisoners' cameras and film and subjected them to a thorough grilling. Somewhat to his surprise, Stone was asked detailed questions about the table of organization of the hard-sell U.S. organization as well as on U.J.A. techniques for fund raising and the uses to which its gifts are put. Stone told as much as he knew, but that was not enough. At one point, Stone said later, his Egyptian interrogator pulled a dossier on the U.J.A. but of a desk drawer and demanded petulantly: "O.K. Let's go through this again...
...ribbon of commerce along which East met West. Indeed, its completion in 1869 was deemed such a historic occasion for Western Europe's mercantile ambitions that elaborate dedication ceremonies were attended by 6,000 foreign guests, including numerous monarchs. The principal cities along the 107-mile channel, Ismailia, Port Said and Suez, grew into bawdy, thriving ports...
...Osman, 56, is determined to be the first civilian into Suez city after the Israeli occupation ends. The boss of Arab Contractors, Egypt's largest building firm, Osman has been charged by Sadat with overseeing the reconstruction of all canal zone cities. He plans to establish headquarters in Ismailia, his birthplace and seat of the old canal company. The clearance of the canal itself will be directed by Mashour Ahmed Mashour, 55, the ex-army officer and graduate engineer who has been chairman of the Suez Canal Authority since 1965. He has set a target date for opening...