Word: ras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before the armored unit set out, Israeli frogmen in boats with muffled engines moved quietly out to sea and headed for the small Egyptian naval base of Ras Sadat, twelve miles south of Port Suez. There the frogmen slid into the water and planted powerful charges under the hulls of two Russian-built Egyptian navy torpedo boats assigned to patrol that section of the gulf; the Egyptian craft blew out of the water...
Farther down the road, the column clanked up to the small outpost at Ras Abu Dareg, leveled its guns on a radar installation and demolished it. In the village of Ras Zafarana, the tanks destroyed another radar, then radioed Tel Aviv for permission to attack a detachment of Egyptian armor parked farther south. Because the convoy had already been in Egypt for ten hours?suffering one man wounded during the whole time ?headquarters ordered them home. Landing craft picked up the soldiers and ferried them back unopposed...
Responding in kind, Israeli commandos raided an Egyptian coast guard station at Ras Adabiya, seven miles southwest of Suez. They claimed 15 Egyptians killed and a small radar station destroyed, at a cost of two men wounded. In a second raid, this time on Jordan, Israeli commandos blasted the $30 million East Ghor irrigation duct...
...movie begins with a sobersided lecture by a bearded sexologist whose recondite Kinseyisms are interspersed with pornographic slides. Eventually, the action leads into the story of Isabela (Eva Ras), a sensual-mouthed switchboard operator who begins an affair with a sad-eyed ratcatcher (Slobodan Aligrudic). As the affair progresses, time begins to dissolve. Suddenly it is the future: she is dead, drowned in a well, while police search for her lover. Back in the present, the graphic lovemaking of Isabela and her ratcatcher is punctuated by an illustrated lecture on sanitation. Once again, it is the future, as her nude...
...around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five smaller states-Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm al Qaiwain and Ras al Khaimah...