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ASSAULT FORCE SINCE D-DAY,*and SYRIA LIKELY TO JOIN FRAY. The first nationwide test of air-raid sirens since the Six-Day War of 1967, added to the scare. Premier Golda Meir, addressing Labor Party leaders in Tel Aviv, warned: "We cannot permit ourselves to carry on with the attitude of business-as-usual with Sadat saying to his people not that he will win, but that he will take them into battle...
Dayan lost his left eye in 1941 when, fighting for the British army, he led a raid into Vichy-held Syria. He was peering through field glasses when a bullet hit the eyepiece, driving metal and glass splinters into his eye. He had to wait six hours for transport to a hospital...
John Carver of the Massachusetts Council on Crime and Correction blamed the raid for reversing the "peaceful and rational effort toward change" that began after the Attica prison uprising in September...
...film clips of the daring attack by a Viet Cong demolition squad on the U.S. embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war." So did many of his countrymen, who had taken at face value General William Westmoreland's expansive claim, a few weeks before Tet, that "with 1968 a new phase is starting. We have reached the important point when the end begins to come...
Last week Medvedev left his home and moved in with friends. He is said to be under constant police surveillance. At week's end, in an open letter circulating in Moscow, Medvedev strongly protested against the "absolutely arbitrary nature and illegality" of the police raid. Some fear that this new round of harassment may be a prelude to arrest, but there is hope that Medvedev's international stature may be sufficiently enhanced by Let History Judge to persuade the authorities to think twice before further persecuting him and thus touching off a worldwide protest...