Word: tewfik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Nations observers stationed along the canal, became the second U.N. officer to die since the outbreak of hostilities 25 months ago; an earlier death occurred during the 1967 fighting in Syria. Major Plane was killed by an Israeli shell fragment at his observation post near Port Tewfik on the Egyptian side of the canal. The post had already sustained several near misses and one direct hit that blew a hole in a wall, just a few yards from the observers' living quarters. When firing began again, Plane and a Chilean colonel moved to a window to take...
...nobody listens any more. You request a ceasefire, and they smile and keep firing." That lack of accomplishment was painfully apparent. In what amounted to Egypt's most successful cross-Suez attack since the end of the 1967 war, "special commando forces" penetrated Israeli positions near Port Tewfik, severely damaging two tanks, killing five Israelis, wounding another three and taking one prisoner. (Egypt, in a characteristic exaggeration, claimed 40 Israelis were killed or wounded.) No Egyptian losses were mentioned by either side...