Word: suez
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information seemed to point in that direction. Egypt's 21st armored division?carefully husbanded until now?had crossed the Suez Canal. At least one other armored division was preparing to follow. The die was now cast. The parties could not yet be brought to end the war?or the Soviets to support a cease-fire?by a calculation of their interests. All that was left was to force a change in the perception of their interests. We would pour in supplies. We would risk a confrontation...
...Tuesday morning, Oct. 16, we were informed that 25 Israeli tanks had crossed to the west side of the Suez Canal at Great Bitter Lake and were beginning to tear up the surface-to-air missile field. If it continued, this guaranteed an Israeli victory because it exposed the Egyptian forces across the Canal to the full fury of Israeli air power...
...indecision within the President's council about what we should do. Brzezinski's counterpart from the Nixon-Ford years, Henry Kissinger, sees the next months as one of the most critical junctures in postwar American history, ranking with the 1956 Suez and Hungarian crises and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. "It is almost exactly a generation since the great creative acts of the immediate postwar years were put in place," says Kissinger, referring to such landmarks as the Marshall Plan and the formation of the Atlantic Alliance. The key tests today, in Kissinger...
...days of deliberation. He had opportunistically decided to use events in Poland, which preoccupied Washington, as a cloak for his action, in much the same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit to Tel Aviv, in order to attend to the Polish crisis...
...difference with Suez was that in 1956 the U.S., which had not been consuited, brought pressure to bear on the aggressors to give up their territorial spoils. This time around, it looked as if nothing similar could be achieved. The U.S. joined in a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution that declared the Israeli action to be "null and void" and demanded that Begin's government rescind its legislation. The resolution was not expected to have any effect, but the Council will take up the matter again no later than Jan. 5, at which time a Syrian push for more...