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Staging their tenth air raid in a month around Cairo, Israeli planes were supposed to bomb an air force supply depot at Khanka, twelve miles north of the Egyptian capital. But two planes swept over the nearby community of Abu Zabal and dropped several bombs on a steel plant whose 1,700 employees had just arrived for the 8 a.m. shift. The Egyptian government reported 70 of the civilian workers killed and 98 wounded in the raid. It was the worst toll of civilians since the 1967 war, and its aftereffects are likely to be felt for a long time...
...reaction of Egyptians has been one of apathy mixed with anger, curiosity mixed with fear. During a raid near Cairo International Airport three weeks ago, crowds in the terminal building stampeded to the basement shelter. Next time Israeli planes looped close to the airport, said one diplomat, "nobody took much notice. This time they went outside to have a look." Within minutes of last week's raid, Cairo's Kasr el-Nil Street was thronged with women shoppers, intersections were jammed with traffic, and sculls from the Gezira Sporting Club were gliding along the glistening Nile...
Perhaps the only really angry men around are students and some army officers. After last week's air raid, knots of students gathered on street corners to chant "Strike, strike!" They were demanding that President Gamal Abdel Nasser attack Israel. As for the army officers, they remember all too well the humiliation of 1967 and are eager to strike back. War Minister Mohammed Fawzi has whetted the appetites of the army by calling 1970 "the year of liberation...
Aside from a stiffening of Arab resistance, the raids involve another danger to the Israelis, as they learned with shattering results. Arab planes can reach Tel Aviv as quickly as Israeli planes can get to Cairo. A day after last week's raid on the Egyptian capital, a Syrian jet buzzed Haifa, breaking windows with its supersonic boom. Exacting the biblical ration of an eye for an eye-and then some-the Israelis buzzed five Syrian cities, including Damascus...
...party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper Rudé Právo declared last week that there should be a distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition nor a general revenge." Yet no one can be too certain. The screening committee includes Alois Indra and Vasil Bilák, two of Czechoslovakia's most notorious collaborators with the Russians...