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...week began, Egyptian forces held firm in their positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, protected from Israeli planes by the umbrella of artillery and missiles. Occasionally they staged commando raids behind Israeli lines, including two on Sharm el Sheikh, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. By midweek the Egyptian buildup in the Sinai had reached more than 100,000 men and 1,000 tanks. They struck spasmodically at Israeli positions in an effort to ease the pressure on Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi forces on the battlefronts of the Golan Heights...
...Sinai, the Egyptians, with 500 tanks, held onto the entire 103-mile length of the east bank of the Suez Canal. They seemed content for the moment to remain under the sheltering umbrella of Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles and artillery, taunting the Israelis to try to dislodge them from their defensive position. The mere fact that they had taken the eastern bank and the Israelis had been unable to push them back across the canal was in itself a significant military achievement...
...decision. The Egyptians either were unable to break out of their bridgehead or, more likely, did not plan to. Except for some armored probes of the Israeli line, which resulted in some heavy clashes, the Egyptians were hunkering down in the desert. As long as they had their missile umbrella, the Israeli air force was largely unable to maul them. That meant Israeli ground forces had to move in to drive the Egyptians...
Last week Durrell, 48, began a ten-week tour of the U.S. and Canada−his first North American visit−"to spread the gospel among the gentiles of the zoo world" and to drum up funds for SAFE (Save Animals From Extinction), an umbrella group now being set up to foster Jersey-like reserves in this country. The gospel according to "Mr. D," as his devoted staff of 20 call him: "Zoos have to become breeding reservoirs...
While most of the folks back home were sweltering in a heat wave, America's favorite fluffhead got caught in a gust of wind straight off the steppes, or anyway at the foot of Gorky Street in Moscow, and found her umbrella abruptly demolished. Goldie Hawn had turned up to "get into some young people's heads" and find out what it would be like to be "the girl from Petrovka." That will be her next role in a movie about a Soviet Holly Golightly who falls in love with an American correspondent (Hal Holbrook). Goldie quickly became...