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...succeed the late Premier Levi Eshkol last week. Only a day after the vote, trouble flared along the Suez Canal. Hours after Israeli jets shot down an Egyptian MIG-21 over the Sinai, artillery opened up along the 60-mile canal front. For the second time since the Six-Day war, Israeli guns set fire to Egypt's main oil refineries at Suez. The Israelis lost one soldier killed and six wounded during a 5-hr. 10-min. shelling duel, which each side accused the other of starting...
...argument had its beginnings in the Six-Day War with Israel, when As sad's best brigades were recalled from the front to protect the government in Damascus. Forced to bear the scorn of fellow Arab officers, Assad also chafed at his inability to get anywhere in his repeated requests for more modern arms. In Syria's feuding with Iraq, moreover, he saw his hopes for a united Arab "eastern command" dashed. Two weeks ago, when Israeli Mirage jets raided Arab commando camps in Syria and, ac cording to Tel Aviv, shot down two ob solescent...
Shortly before the six-day Arab-Israeli war in 1967, a well-meaning Christian friend asked Jewish Scholar Abraham J. Heschel why he was "so dreadfully upset." Heschel thought for a moment. Then he replied gently: "Imagine that in the entire world there remains one copy of the Bible, and suddenly I see a brutal hand seize this copy, the only one in the world, and prepare to cast it into the flames...
...first time since the Six-Day War, Israeli jets attacked in Syria. More than a dozen planes bombed and strafed two fedayeen camps, one of them on the outskirts of Damascus. As usual, the roar of rockets was followed by a war of words; the Israelis claimed that as many as 80 fedayeen were killed and two Syrian MIG-17s shot down. The Syrians claimed to have downed three Israeli jets, and the fedayeen claimed that the attack had wounded only two guerrillas, while killing five civilians in a nearby washing-machine plant (the Syrians reported 15 dead...
UNTIL the Six-Day War, Kallia was a sprawling Jordanian army base, rich in history but little else. Near by sit the brown Judean cliffs in whose natural caves were found the treasures of the Dead Sea scrolls. At Ain (spring) Feshkha, a favorite spa of ancient Rome's 1 Oth Legion officers, waters still ripple out of the otherwise lifeless ground. When Israeli armor appeared on June 7, 1967, Kallia's Arab defenders had vanished across the Jordan River, leaving buildings, installations and many vehicles intact. For a time, Kallia was merely another dot on Israeli military...