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Have the Soviet efforts made better fighters out of the Arabs? The Israeli answer is a resounding no, overall. As if to buttress their contention, the Israelis last week launched the largest attacks since the Six-Day War on the Syrian front. Annoyed by mounting numbers of small Syrian probes, Israeli jets and artillery pounded Syrian positions for seven hours, knocking out at least 15 antiaircraft and artillery batteries...
...Egypt and Israel appeared to have eased slightly. Both sides continued jet attacks, but the planes hit only scattered military targets. In a dogfight over the northern Nile delta, Israeli pilots claimed two MIG-21s downed with cannon fire-the 73rd and 74th kills of Egyptian planes since the Six-Day...
When 6,000,000 died, Elie Wiesel survived. The implications of that selection have haunted him ever since, and lent somber substance to his writing (seven books, one play). Wiesel was at work in Manhattan on his eighth book when the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War broke out in 1967. Like thousands of Jews all over the world, he was unable to resist some sort of involvement. "I had to put everything aside," he remembers, and "I went to Jerusalem." This uniquely complete novel is the result of Wiesel's pilgrimage. It undertakes nothing less than the telling...
Consumed by Fire. In Wiesel's novel Dan the Prince is part of a band of beggars who meet each night within the shadow of the Wailing Wall after the Six-Day War to tell tales. Some are mad, some are drunk, some are blind. But all of them are ostensibly seers. Among them is David, the book's narrator and central figure. Like Wiesel, David was born in Transylvania and has survived the Nazi death camps. Unwilling or unable to die, he seems doomed to live out the prediction of a Nazi lieutenant who tried and failed...
...drifting sands of the Sinai Peninsula had not yet settled over the wreckage of Arab war machines in 1967 when Israel and Egypt became locked in another fevered contest. Since the Suez Canal was closed indefinitely by the Six-Day War, forcing oil tankers to make the long and costly journey around the Cape of Good Hope, both countries hastily revived plans to build pipelines. These lines were intended to transmit Middle East oil more quickly and cheaply to the Mediterranean for shipment to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Last week Egypt's plans were still on the drawing...