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...pressures will mount on him to withdraw much sooner for the sake of party unity. Said a White House assistant, indelicately: "Even Rommel gave up when his tanks ran out of gas." For fear of antagonizing conservatives whose enthusiasm Ford will need in November, the President's aides have not directly assailed Reagan as a spoiler. Instead, they have encouraged Ford loyalists to speak out. Rogers Morton, who was tapped to succeed Bo Callaway as campaign manager (see story page 19), has asked Texas Senator John Tower, House Minority Leader John Rhodes and Republican Whip Robert Michel to "open...
...feints and ruses of special operatives also worked at El Alamein, where Rommel was fooled by planted documents and fake troop movements. Hitler was conned into thinking that Sardinia, not Sicily, would be invaded...
Died. Ahmad Ismail Ali, 57, Egyptian Minister of War and military commander who planned the 1973 Arab assaults at Suez and on the Golan Heights; of cancer; in London. A World War II veteran who saw action with the British Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, Ismail fought in the 1948, 1956 and 1967 wars against Israel. As Arab commander in chief, he put in 20-hour days during 1973, planning the autumn strike. When the Syrian and Egyptian assaults came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Ismail's use of water cannon to erode the sand...
...using his 3-to-1 superiority in planes to "wipe the British Air Force from the sky" helped the R. A.F. deploy and husband its forces until the Luftwaffe, crippled too, abandoned the attempt. It was Ultra and not General Montgomery's much celebrated "intuition" that told when Rommel would strike at El Alamein, the turning point for the British in the North African desert war. As the D-day landings approached in Normandy, Ultra was scrutinized for signs of a Nazi alert; there were none, and Operation Overlord's surprise was complete...
...radio broadcast in the U.S. called George Patton "a rootin', tootin', hip-shootin' commander whose chief ambition is to meet Marshal Rommel in a personal tank battle, just the two of them, squared off in a duel to the death." Patton encouraged that flamboyant image until finally he threatened to degenerate into self-parody. He once presented a speaker to his troops by saying: "Men, I want to introduce to you the noblest work of God-a killer!" With his ivory-handled pistols and magnificently bloodthirsty battle speeches, his dashing tank tactics and the almost sinister boyishness...