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...Israel's land borders and made them much easier to defend. Israel's new frontier with Jordan runs for 60 miles rather than 180 and, equally important, it runs along the Jordan River rather than through a twisting, tortured no man's land of hills and scrub. The old Negev Desert border stretched a porous 160 miles. With the addition of Sinai, Israel's underbelly is now bounded by open water, save for the 107-mile stretch facing the Suez Canal. Israel's classic military victory on the Golan Heights of Syria has driven...
...elite, red-bereted ranger battalions. Though more and more units are being assigned as shields for pacification efforts, government troops are still out hunting the enemy. In the Delta, the war "is still largely a South Vietnamese one, with three ARVN divisions working alongside one U.S. division. In the scrub jungles around Saigon, South Vietnamese units participate in every major U.S. search-and-destroy mission; several thousand ARVN men joined in Operation Junction City last February. Even in the war along the DMZ, South Vietnamese rangers went in with the U.S. Marines in the invasion of the zone...
...largely American and British; Nasser's were Russian, like most of his other equipment. Some 800 on each side squared off to battle for the Sinai Peninsula, a hell's amphitheater of ankle-deep, choking velvet sand broken by the ocher slag heaps of hills and occasional grey-green scrub...
...shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
Cornell University's West Sibley Hall had a jewel of a janitor-for a couple of hours, anyway, as Historian Clinton Rossiter, 49, scrabbled around with bucket and scrub brush. Rossiter doesn't think the hired help who are supposed to clean up the 100-year-old home of the government and history departments have been paying attention to his office. "The janitors have no time to clean up here," Rossiter announced, as he staged a protest "scrub-in" with six of his students and three other professors. "They're too busy watering the potted palms over...