Word: lev
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...initial cease-fire between Israel and Egypt had hardly taken effect last August before both sides were using the lull to prepare for war. Israel's Bar-Lev Line, along the Suez Canal's east bank, was extended and impressively hardened. Across the canal, the late Gamal Abdel Nasser rushed so many Soviet-built missiles forward that, as a Western diplomat in Cairo cracked last week, "even if the Russians wanted to move more in, they probably couldn't find a place to put them...
...Khrushchev's four daughters, has worked as deputy editor of the monthly Science and Life. Granddaughter Yulia, whose father Leonid, the elder Khrushchev son, was killed during World War II, studied journalism at Moscow University and has worked for Trud, the trade union newspaper. Her husband Lev, who died in July, was an editor of the news agency Novosti and of the English-language magazine Soviet Weekly. With that many journalists in the Khrushchev household, it would not be surprising if the old man's nostalgic story-telling sessions had been recorded...
Indeed, the Israelis used the first ceasefire to make major improvements on the Bar-Lev line, a series of fortifications named for the army's chief of staff. Engineers reinforced the forts all along the line, replacing sandbags with concrete and adding cover for Israeli soldiers. Roads were paved to speed traffic and deter mine laying, water and sewer lines were installed and, behind the lines, large ammunition and fuel depots were constructed and new forces moved...
...estimates that some 45 to 50 SAM batteries are fully operational and another 100 sites have been prepared to receive missiles. The batteries, each containing six missile launchers, have continually edged forward, so that the SAMs now have theoretical command of the air space behind Israel's Bar-Lev Line on the Suez's east bank. If hostilities resume and Egyptian guns again pound the Israeli fortifications, the SAMs could exact a heavy toll from Israeli fighter-bombers crossing the Canal to silence Egyptian artillery. Since at least 15 of the sites house highly sophisticated SA-3s, which...
Nevertheless, Israel, violating the standstill under the guise of "maintenance," has been steadily refurbishing the Bar-Lev Line on the east bank of the Suez Canal since August. Sandbags have been replaced by cement, and roads have been asphalted to forestall mining...