Word: suez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extraordinary Accuracy. The answers were quickly delivered, in the biggest outbreak of violence since the end of the war. Less than 67 hours after the destroyer Elath went down, Israeli gunners opened up from positions on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Their weapons were heavy mortars, their tactics a technique known as a rolling barrage, their target Port Suez-and the refineries that produce all of Egypt's cooking and heating...
...attack began with a few rounds on the city of Suez itself. Then, with extraordinary accuracy, the Israelis zeroed in on the $30 million Nasr (Victory) Oil Co. refinery two miles inland, and the equally important Suez Oil Processing Co. another mile behind. Apparently operating from blueprints, they lobbed shell after shell into the two major plants, hitting their oil storage tanks, pipeline complexes and coking and cracking units with every incoming shell. U.N. truce supervisors immediately appealed for a ceasefire, but the Israelis ignored them. A second appeal was referred to Jerusalem, where the government pleaded ''technical...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 24--Egypt and Israel fought a roaring battle of artillery and mortars at the southern end of the Suez Canal Tuesday that caused heavy damage to Egypt's Port Suez. A huge refinery complex in Port Suez was left blazing and Egypt charged that the port's inhabited area was "almost demolished...
...Security Council was called into urgent session to consider Egypt's charges of Israeli aggression. Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed A. El-Kony claimed that the shelling of Port Suez began immediately after an extraordinary meeting of the Israeli cabinet and could not be considered an isolated incident. It "It went far beyond any minor violation of the cease-fire," the ambassador said, "and cannot be considered less than full military operations, which are an act of war under the U.N. charter...
...officer and instructor, and from time to time, probably saved his life. For the first three days of the Six Day War, Nadav criss-crossed the blue skies over Sinai, raking Egyptian planes and armor with his French Super Mystere jet. Then, with Israeli troops on the Suez, he arced north to pound the Syrian heights opposite Ayeleth...