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...month-old ceasefire. Last week it was Israel's turn to retaliate. A few days earlier, the Egyptians had unleashed a sudden Sabbath rocket and artillery barrage that killed 15 Israeli soldiers guarding the right bank of the Suez Canal. Israel's riposte was the most spectacular raid since last year...
...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...
...Long Crush. Arabs professed to find some comfort in the fact that Israel chose to avoid a strike at "the strong Arab front line," as Beirut Columnist Ghassan Kanafani put it. But such dubious optimism belied the main point of the raid: Israeli forces had staged a daring attack within 140 miles of the Aswan Dam, on which Egyptians are banking so heavily that they have nicknamed it simply "our future." Now 96% complete, the dam could probably not be destroyed by anything short of an atomic warhead, but damage to its sluice gates and other vulnerable parts could impede...
...police also said that if ABC went in without making arrests, it was "just investigatory work" and "not a raid." Although the Cambridge officers were not informed of the investigation, they did say that even a private club cannot serve minors...
...remaining 70 students expected a police raid late last night, a Daily Californian source said...