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Seeking Coexistence. Though Soviet aircraft have avoided the direct combat area over Suez, the Israelis branded the Russian role as "alarming." Said Jerusalem: "The Soviet decision to dispatch what are to all intents and purposes regular units of the Soviet air force against Israel is without precedent and parallel." Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser could hardly be expected to see it that way. At a May Day rally near Cairo, he ridiculed the Israeli charges of Soviet involvement as "a great comedy." Declared Nasser: "The Soviet Union is not helping us launch aggression. It is helping us liberate our occupied...
Emboldened by Soviet protection, the Egyptians have seized the military initiative for the first time since last July, when Israeli airpower virtually silenced Egyptian batteries along the Suez. Subsequently, Israeli jets began hitting industrial and military targets deep inside Egypt. Cairo last week sent two Russian-made IL-28 bombers to raid the town of El Arish in the northern Sinai, destroying an ice factory and a herd of cattle before Israeli fighters shot down at least one of the planes. Egyptian fighter-bombers also hit Israeli positions along the canal. On three separate occasions, Egyptian commandos launched across...
Three Options. By far the most important Egyptian assault, however, has been a renewed artillery barrage along the Suez. Aided by Soviet advisers, the Egyptians have assembled 800 artillery pieces along the canal's 101-mile length and have laid down an accurate and systematic barrage that has sent as many as 1,000 shells an hour crashing into one Israeli fortification. As a result, Israeli casualties -27 killed and 66 wounded in April -have been the highest for the Suez front since last July...
...behemoths in the mid-1960s, when prices were 40% lower than now. Shell transports oil for significantly less than it would have to pay with smaller tankers. It is also one of the few oil majors with a fleet big enough to compensate for the closing of the Suez Canal...
...Information Agency. Rowan now writes a thrice-weekly column carried by 150 newspapers. As a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, Rowan made a reputation covering civil rights, later received assignments on major nonblack stories. He covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the Midwest and the Hungarian and Suez crises...