Word: ras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their rallying cry was Ralbol!-a contraction of the slang expression On en a ras le bol, meaning "We're fed up to the gills." Their complaint: a system that stuffs students into facilities that are often grimly overcrowded, and an outmoded curriculum that rates rote learning over lively thinking...
Sadat's Suez plan calls for the Israelis to withdraw from their fortified Bar-Lev Line to new positions farther back in the desert along a line from just east of the Mediterranean coastal town of El Arish to Ras Mohammed, at the extreme southern tip of the Sinai peninsula just west of Sharm el Sheikh (see map). Once the withdrawal had been accomplished, Egyptians would occupy the area and begin the laborious business of clearing the waterway (see box, page...
...manned by Israeli commandos dressed in Egyptian-type uniforms, to stage a ten-hour raid along Egypt's side of the Suez Canal. In their most recent raid, commandos slipped across the Gulf of Suez, made a 90-minute forced march to an Egyptian radar site near Ras Gharib and dismantled the seven-ton Soviet-made radar unit. Helicopters whisked the entire installation, housed in two huge vans, 17 miles into Israeli-held territory, along with four captured Egyptian technicians. The year-old P12 radar unit has a range of nearly 200 miles, controls both conventional antiaircraft fire...