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Nixon's action reflected deep U.S. displeasure with the Soviets over a number of issues. Washington remains disturbed by Russia's role in sneaking missiles into the cease-fire zone along the Suez Canal. The U.S. is also disappointed that Moscow has refused to exert pressure on North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course...
...midnight approached, the nonchalant mood that had prevailed along both banks of the Suez Canal swiftly evaporated. The 90-day cease-fire negotiated by the U.S. was ticking to an end. Israeli and Egyptian soldiers crept back into their bunkers. Lights were doused, guns cocked, vehicles halted, radios turned down, movies canceled. But midnight passed with no more hostile sounds than the whine of the wind and the soft swish of the canal water...
Lights On. Meanwhile, Sadat showed up at the Suez front and told his troops to be prepared to "fight at any minute." Egypt would not be frightened, he said in a speech, "even if the U.S. gives every Israeli a tank." Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa scheduled air-raid drills for Cairo and Alexandria, but more moderate elements in Sadat's government prevailed on the President to cancel them. In addition, night lights on the Nile River bridges were turned on for the first time since January, when Israel launched the first of its deep-penetration air-raids in response...
...debate by declaring that three years of quiet diplomacy had failed, "due to Israel's insistence on expansion on the one hand, and the support it receives from the U.S. on the other." Foreign Minister Abba Eban again called on Cairo to "rectify" the uneasy situation along the Suez Canal by pulling back all or most of the missiles that the Egyptians, in violation of agreements, have moved into the area since the cease-fire began in August...
...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 are manned by Russians, the Israelis estimate...