Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the first shells whistled in, off-guard Israeli troops were playing a Sabbath soccer game. Within moments along the 70-mile Suez front, Egyptian gunners had opened up with everything from long-range artillery to Russian-made Katyusha rockets. In all, 15 Israeli soldiers were killed and 34 wounded, mostly in the first rounds. The Israelis fired back, accounting for five Egyptian dead and nine wounded. It was the second artillery ambush by the Egyptians in seven weeks, and the first in which the Israelis emerged second best...
...week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
...Morale. Just why Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser should fan his people's warlike mood and risk Israeli retaliation could only be a matter of speculation. Certainly the duel improved home-front morale and Nasser's political position. It also provided training. Under cover of the Suez barrage, about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force. No country...
...main strength is tankers, and wisely so. In the mid-1950s, when Onassis began building supertankers, which later grew to 250,000 tons, he was told that they would never pay because they could not negotiate the Suez Canal. When Nasser closed the canal in 1956, Onassis made more millions with his swift hauls around the Cape...
...East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state in the area "to live in peace." The Egyptians also said that once a settlement was achieved, Israeli ships would be permitted the use of the Suez Canal...