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...specific reference to the P.L.O., acceptance of an Israeli veto over the nature of any international guarantees of the ultimate borders. In its effort to knock down charges of a SALT sellout, the Administration got some help from the Syrians: they were as critical of the declaration as the Israelis???only their complaint was that their Soviet patrons had been too generous to Israel...
Since a near encounter between Russian and Israeli jets in April, the opposing forces have established a kind of invisible line of demarcation extending into Egypt roughly 25 miles west of the Suez Canal. The Russians venture no farther east than the line and the Israelis???on combat missions?no farther west. Thus, Israel's air force, its "flying artillery," ranged unopposed over Egyptian gun sites on the west bank last week. The Egyptian cannon had been booming away at the sand, concrete and steel fortresses on the east bank that form the Bar-Lev Line (see box, page...
...ground that the odds are longest against the Israelis???at least in terms of numbers. With a population of 2,800.000 v. 51 million Arabs, Israel can mobilize an army of 275,000 against Arab armies of 398,000 men. The Israelis depend on air superiority and wits to protect themselves. One reason that Israeli soldiers have hunkered down for so long on the Bar-Lev Line under barely tolerable siege conditions is that their string of hedgehog forts and minefields serve as a kind of trip wire. The line, using relatively few men, is designed to delay any kind...
Curious Footnote. One by one, other Biblical towns fell to the advancing Israelis???Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem?until they had seized all of Hussein's kingdom west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Unlike their Egyptian brethren in Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli...
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