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...morale soared. But last week, on the third anniversary of the war, their mood was souring into one of gloom and uncertainty, and they were beginning to wonder whether they had really won a war, or merely the opening skirmish of a war. Frontier terrorism, constant clashes on the Suez Canal and anxiety about Soviet intentions have created a profound political and psychological malaise...
...Gandhi's state visit pointed up the fact that Mauritius-situated some 2,400 miles south of the Indian subcontinent and 1,400 miles off the coast of East Africa-has become an object of interest to the great powers. The closing of the Suez Canal in 1967 forced merchant shipping back onto the round-Africa routes to Asia, turning Mauritius into a regular port of call...
...complaining about what he thought was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's high-handed one-man rule. Some years earlier, Wilson himself left Clement Attlee's regime in protest against an emphasis on arms over social welfare. Anthony Eden suffered similar Cabinet defections as a result of his Suez policy in 1956, even as, nearly 20 years earlier, he had repudiated Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini by his own resignation. The British have probably best refined the notion of principled resignation−there have been more than 70 such Cabinet departures in this century...
...still further, Aviation Week & Space Technology last week carried photographs of concrete hangarettes, some camouflaged to resemble mosques, from which the Russian MiGs are flying. The magazine also printed a map snowing construction sites for the SAMs spaced at 71-mile intervals all along the western bank of the Suez Canal...
...addition, three Syrian MIGs that had appeared eight hours after the attack began were shot down. (The Israelis also claimed to have shot down seven Egyptian planes during clashes over the Suez Canal for a week's total of ten Arab aircraft-one of the biggest bags since the Six-Day War.) At sea, meanwhile, Israel pursued the same tit-for-tat strategy that it applied in Lebanon. After an Egyptian naval missile sank an Israeli fishing trawler and killed two crewmen, Israeli jets sank an Egyptian destroyer and missile boat...