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...turned out to be the costliest and most dangerous engagement in 25 years of Middle East tension, and its fearful consequences were still not fully calculated. Last week the Yom Kippur War (as Israelis call it) threatened to involve not only Israelis and Arabs, but Russians and Americans as well, in a bewildering and exhaustive kaleidoscope of crisis. The week began with a seemingly firm display of East-West détente: a joint Moscow-Washington resolution introduced in the United Nations that called for a stop to the fighting and the commencement of peace negotiations. By midweek...
Even before the Yom Kippur War, the Soviets were the principal tutors and suppliers of the Egyptian and Syrian armed forces. They not only replaced the enormous Arab losses of the 1967 war but delivered hundreds of additional tanks and planes. They gave the Egyptians and Syrians sophisticated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, including the potent SA-6 missile, as well as advisers to instruct the Arabs in their...
Some Western military observers believe that the Soviets also helped the Arabs plan the offensive against Israel. In the days before Yom Kippur, the wives and children of Soviet advisers left Egypt and Syria, which suggests that Moscow knew the exact date of the planned attack. The speed with which the Soviets organized the complex resupply flights to the Arabs also indicates that the Russians were prepared for the war. Ready also were several of Russia's Cosmos satellites, which after launching orbited 180 miles above the Middle Eastern battlefields providing Moscow with important photographs of the battle...
...Yom Kippur War caught Israel in the middle of an election campaign. For nearly a month, Israel's leading politicians, including Premier Golda Meir, 75, had been stumping the country, wooing voters for the Knesset (Parliament) elections that were scheduled for Oct. 30. The war forced postponement of the voting until Dec. 31 and, for a while, reduced domestic political sniping. By last week, however, Israel's ever-voluble politicians had begun loosening their tongues again, providing a preview of the election issues. The outcome could determine how Israel will deal with its Arab neighbors in seeking peace...
...right now. Menahem Begin, a leader of the opposition Likud coalition in the Knesset, has denounced the government for the "grave shortcoming" of not properly deploying the army before the Egyptian and Syrian attack. He blasted as "frivolous" the government's assessment of the military situation before Yom Kippur...