Word: men
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reinforcements ever arrived to aid the outgunned Egyptians. Officials later maintained that they did not want to expose tanks and men to strafing Israeli jets. But two days later, smarting under an attack that they refused to admit had succeeded, the Egyptians scrambled jets to attack Israeli troops on the Sinai side of the Suez Canal. All told, Cairo claimed, 102 Egyptian planes were in the air. They were challenged by Israeli pilots, and a swirl of dogfights began. Before darkness ended the fighting, Israel claimed eleven Egyptian planes downed against only one of its own. The total...
...current phase of conflict started about 18 months ago with the appearance of sizable numbers of Arab guerrillas who called themselves "fedayeen" ("men of sacrifice"). Wellarmed, fairly well-trained, bound together by a mystical hatred of the Jews, the fedayeen swelled rapidly with recruits. Soon eleven different organizations, seven of which are loosely amalgamated and led by a burly fighter named Yasser Arafat (TIME cover, Dec. 13), were raiding Israel. Though most Arab governments were reluctant to give them open support for fear of retaliation, the fedayeen before long were powerful enough to defy the authorities. The fedayeen never were...
...Egyptian military vehicles. They were machine-gunned. Sentries were shot down before they could reach for their guns. Some men asleep in guard posts along the road died without waking when Israeli engineers leaped out of the half-tracks and slid satchel charges into the huts where they...
...proved beyond the slightest doubt. On paper, at least, the Arab armies are stronger than the Israeli forces. In its most recent annual report, London's Institute for Strategic Studies estimates that, including reserves, the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Syria and Iraq have a total of 400,000 men under arms v. 290,000 for Israel. Together the Arab countries have 2,200 tanks compared with 1,000 for Israel and about 645 jet interceptors and fighter-bombers to 195 for the Israelis. In Egypt's case, the bulk of the equipment has been supplied by the Soviet Union since...
...additional planes, Israel is certain to step up its anticipatory counterattacks, particularly to relieve the pressure on the so-called Bar-Lev defense line near the Suez Canal. One object of last week's raid, for example, was to provoke Nasser into shifting southward some of the 80,000 men he has along the canal, but he is unlikely to do so. Thus more Israeli attacks can be expected south of Suez. Eventually, the Israelis might also bomb the big industrial center of Helwan, 15 miles south of Cairo, where they could inflict damage to Nasser's economy without hitting...