Word: ported
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...Peace Boulevard." The mood was starkly different in Suez itself. The Israelis hold three quarters of the port city. The residential quarters remain in Egyptian hands, but the port, the oil refineries and the suburbs are occupied by Israeli troops. On all the main boulevards leading from Ismailia down into the port city, there was evidence of bitter fighting. Whole blocks of apartment buildings have been destroyed. Many of them still contained bodies. Part way down the main street, now nicknamed "Peace Boulevard," two burned-out Egyptian trucks blocked the road. On one side were Israeli troops, some of them...
...departed Lyndon Johnson. This edifice will then be complemented by the development of new hotels, shopping centers and highways. And followed by the city wide expansion of the universities and their spin-off industries. The plan, even at the outset, will destroy the residential communities of Cambridge port and Riverside, where, already, homeowners are selling out to un principled real estate speculators who intend to turn the area into a land of mini condominiums priced beyond the pocketbooks of most present residents. If you're real you'll understand the truth of this town/gown scenario and disregard the liberal profile...
...east bank. With at least 20,000 men and 500 tanks at their disposal on the southern portion of the west bank, the Israelis cut the vital highway between Suez and Cairo, encircled and later captured most of the city of Suez and pushed on to the port of Adabiya. In the process, they trapped the Egyptian Third Army, which was still in position on the east bank of the canal...
...Port Said is a ghost town. The yellow and whitewashed buildings are mute. The Sheherazade nightclub, the new Metropole Hotel and the Bank of Alexandria are scarred by bomb blasts. We were escorted into this canal-side city by Egyptian officers. They kicked down the door of the former British officers' club and led us through a billiards room where the stale smell of dust and decay hung over the neatly racked cues and a picture of the late President Nasser. The rules of the game of snooker in fine curlicued print hung on the wall. The balcony opened...
...halftracks and artillery, first by barge and later across bridges hastily constructed north of the Great Bitter Lake. By week's end the force of 15,000 men was making headway in a three-pronged assault on the western bank of the canal: northward toward Ismailia, southward toward Port Suez and westward toward Cairo...