Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moments of light or dark humor, and the latest Mideast battle is no exception. In the sand near the canal, an Israeli tank-unit commander counted his vehicles at dawn and discovered that he had one too many. An Egyptian armored personnel carrier, lost in the desert night, had attached itself to the column. The Israelis destroyed it before the Egyptian crew discovered where they were...
...Israeli armor. With a range of roughly one mile, the Snapper can literally be steered to its target by a gunner who guides a pair of hair-thin wires that unravel from the back of the soaring rocket. It has accounted for most of Israel's nearly 300 tank losses. More conventional but nonetheless effective has been Egypt's use of the Russian T-62 main battle tank. This is the first time that the 36.5-ton tank has operated in combat. It carries...
...week's end, the Egyptians had not taken the Sinai and the Syrians apparently had suffered a major reversal in the Golan Heights as Israeli tank brigades broke through the Arab lines and advanced northward in the direction of Damascus...
Monday, Tel Aviv communiques spoke of smashing the trapped Egyptian tank forces on the East Bank of the canal. By Wednesday the Israelis admitted they had abandoned their Suez defense lines and they talked of a "war of attrition" instead of a war of retribution...
...week ended with Israeli tanks and soldiers pushing down the Damascus road, Egypt claiming victory in a major tank battle in the Sinai and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 predicting that the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, will be able to keep out of the fighting. A lot of people were hoping Kissinger would beat the week's prediction jinx...