Word: niles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city preparing for war. The government is gradually extending a blackout of neon signs, house lights and auto headlights. Since blackouts are tactically obsolete in an age of electronic detection instruments, the objective seemed to be to bring home to Cairenes the possibility that they might be bombed. All Nile bridges, train stations, telegraph offices and key installations are protected by guards in sandbagged redoubts. Brick blast walls have been built in front of thousands of doorways. MIG-21s make practice scrambles over the city and on the ground are protected by concrete revetments against a surprise attack like...
...give to Israel as a luxury or fulfillment of its need, but as something at least as necessary for his people as for the Israelis. It's not a present for him to give to us. It's something that his children, the children in the Nile valley, need as much...
...nearly every Egyptian, the new moon that settled over the Nile Valley in mid-November brought with it a period of brooding and selfcriticism. It marked the advent of Ramadan, the Moslem holy month, when the faithful stop to fast, offer prayers and examine the fullness or emptiness of their lives...
...raid came not on the Suez front but on the Nile River, deep in Egypt's heartland. By the light of a nearly full moon, a band of airborne Israeli commandos penetrated farther into enemy territory (140 miles) than they had ventured even during the war. Then the force split into three groups. One squad assaulted the bridge at Qena (pop. 40,000), a $5,000,000 span completed only this year. Another attacked the bridge-dam at Nag Hammadi (pop. 20,000), whose lock controls the flow of water for irrigating upper-valley sugarcane fields. The third...
...Egyptian agriculture and industry. That possibility was hardly lost on jubilant Israelis. Wrote the union daily Davar: "From now on, the Egyptians will have to take into account that the long and crushing arm of the Israeli defense forces is capable of reaching anywhere in the land of the Nile...