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...more vicious than the Sinai campaign of 1956. The few roads which cross the Sinai desert are lined with burnt-out trucks and tanks, while the Mitla Pass (a strategic pass through the mountains of Western Sinai near the Suez Canal) appears to be an enormous junk-heap of scrap metal. Although some of the damage to the seven Egyptian divisions stationed in the Sinai came from three Israeli armer divisions, most of it was the work of the superb Israeli Air Force which dominated the skies after catching some 450 assorted planes (most of them on the ground...
...against" teachers suspected of harboring anti-Mao views-will mean the loss of two years of education before the school system is put back in running order. But this may be the least of China's troubles. For behind the scenes, Mao's advisers are proposing to scrap the old curriculum, generally based on Western models, and substitute instead a program aimed at producing indoctrinated revolutionists first, scholars and technicians second, which may keep China's schools and universities hobbled for years to come...
...nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of aggression" before any peace talks could be considered. Unlike the intransigent Syrians and Egyptians, Hussein did not accuse the U.S. of tak ing part in the scrap. Instead of looking for scapegoats, he admitted that the Arabs had lost all by themselves. "It is apparent that we have not yet learned well enough how to use the weapons of modern warfare," he said. "But we will if we have...
...scrap began as a search-and-destroy operation. The floating troop carriers dropped off two U.S. infantry battalions and one ARVN battalion at three scattered points along the Rach Hui River 17 miles south of Saigon, and the troops fanned out looking for action. When one company made contact with a Viet Cong battalion on the river, the boats rushed reinforcements up, and five air strikes were called in along with armed helicopters and the miniguns of the converted C-47s known as Puff the Magic Dragon. The Monitor and troop carriers opened up at almost point-blank range with...