Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though much of Cairo's ancient rhythm is unchanged and unchanging, the city is in fact a capital at war, a war that rages daily along the Suez Canal, only 70 miles away. The war shows?in the shabby, weary, olive-drab ambiance of the city, in the preparations it has made against attack. Hundreds of brick blast walls stand on sidewalks in front of doorways. The entrances to a few public buildings are heavily sandbagged. Windows and car headlights are painted blue?the ancient color for warding off the evil eye?to conform to blackout regulations. In erratic fashion...
...left Cairo shorn of part of its realm, ruling over a defeated people and a divided land. Lost in the war, the Sinai desert and Gaza remain in the hands of the conquering Israelis, who are solidly entrenched on the east bank of the Suez Canal...
...conviction that the Arabs would get licked in any new adventure. In other ways, the similarities between the two periods are proving quite remarkable. Last week United Nations Secretary-General U Thant warned both sides that U.N. observers cannot "continue indefinitely" to be exposed to artillery fire across the Suez Canal. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in a May Day speech that was his most belligerent since the war, declared: "We are planning for attack. Our forces are prepared to move into Sinai." Almost exactly the same rhetoric preceded...
Intensified Scare. In the deadly Middle East pattern of blow and counterblow, Nasser's threat was made in response to an Israeli raid into Egypt -which in turn was in retaliation for continued Egyptian shelling along the Suez Canal. As the barrages continued into their fifth week, Israel counted ten more dead...
...effect, the Israeli account of the raid was hotly disputed by Egypt, which claimed that "there were no losses at all." Moreover, it is questionable whether even an entirely successful raid would have deterred Nasser. He has publicly written off Egypt's oil refineries and installations along the Suez, which have been heavily damaged by Israeli artillery, and has ordered the evacuation of Port Said. He also promised last week that the shelling would go on until Israel's fortifications along the canal are destroyed...