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Tanks and mechanized infantry units of two divisions of the First Egyptian Army, normally assigned to defend the regime in Cairo, pummeled the three brigades that Gaddafi managed to throw into battle. Meanwhile nearly a dozen Egyptian commando and paratrooper battalions dropped behind Libyan lines, and three squadrons of MiG fighter jets bombed and strafed Libyan cities and military bases. The fierce armor and air battles raged for at least three days...
Erstwhile Allies. On Sunday, Cairo launched more bombing raids and claimed that six Libyan planes and several tanks had been destroyed; two Egyptian Sukhoi 20 planes were shot down. Although the exact situation on the battlefield remained uncertain, one thing was clear: the dispute between these angry neighbors and erstwhile allies was close to careening out of control...
...battles began along the sandy Libyan-Egyptian border, 390 miles west of Cairo. In his telecast, Sadat insisted that Gaddafi-"that very strange person"-had ordered his forces to make border raids near Sallum (see map). In one such incursion, the Egyptian President said, the Libyans had taken 14 prisoners. "He felt proud of himself," Sadat said, "but he was playing with fire." The Libyans answered that it was the Egyptians who had been raiding across the border. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the Egyptians apparently reinforced their border forces last week and waited to strike, in order to teach...
...forehead in a salute to the presiding judge. That sort of thing is not done in more liberalized Muslim societies like Libya. Although Strongman Muammar Gaddafi imposed Koranic law in 1973, thieves are usually jailed instead of having their hands amputated. "We want these people to work," says a Libyan police official. "How can they work if we cut off their hands...
...Egypt's need to buy "defensive" weapons, mainly antitank missiles and some F-5 fighter planes. Presumably, he will point out that since he kicked the Soviet technicians out of Egypt five years ago, the Russians have sold $1.5 billion in sophisticated weaponry to his unfriendly neighbor, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Although the U.S. now provides Egypt with about $900 million a year in aid (second only to what it gives Israel), its only previous military sale to Egypt consisted of six C-130 transports ordered last year...