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...Israelis have also acquired considerable equipment in their battles with the Arabs. Last fall they used captured Soviet armored cars, still bearing their original Egyptian markings and manned by Israeli commandos dressed in Egyptian-type uniforms, to stage a ten-hour raid along Egypt's side of the Suez Canal. In their most recent raid, commandos slipped across the Gulf of Suez, made a 90-minute forced march to an Egyptian radar site near Ras Gharib and dismantled the seven-ton Soviet-made radar unit. Helicopters whisked the entire installation, housed in two huge vans, 17 miles into Israeli...
Actually, Nasser's courtship was a relatively cautious affair. Badly burned by Egypt's previous attempts at unions with the mercurial states of Syria and Iraq, he was plainly leary of any binding marriage with either Libya or the Sudan. Even if these new "West of Suez" alliances do not presage formal political ties, however, they set the stage for close military and economic cooperation with Libya and the Sudan. On top of that, having lost considerable prestige at the recent Arab summit in Rabat, Nasser was seeking to recoup it amidst the cheering Libyans and Sudanese...
...special Cabinet meeting. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, in an interview with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, rejected the proposals in unusually strong language. The U.S. Jewish community was anguished by the deepest rift between the U.S. and Israel since Washington forced Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized during the 1956 Suez crisis. Leaders of 14 Jewish organizations called on Rogers, and a heated two-hour meeting ensued. They counterpointed another group-including Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and other businessmen with substantial Middle East interests-that had been closeted earlier last month with Richard Nixon. Rockefeller was fresh from...
...force mounted its largest assault since the 1967 war. For more than eight hours, jets roared over Suez, shooting up artillery emplacements and setting fires at Egypt's Suez refineries. The principal targets were surface-to-air missile sites, and the destruction of SAM sites was a warning to Egypt not to press too hard. It was also an indication that, for the time being, Israel would rather maintain the uncertain status quo than agree to any peace formula that would diminish its security...
...dedication to the Arab cause. It warmly received Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat and presented him with $240,000 for the guerrillas. But the U.S. and Britain are trying to get along with the new rulers, and the main reason is Libyan oil. Since the '67 closure of Suez, Libyan exports have doubled because high-grade Libyan oil lies closer to Europe without the canal than most Arabian oil. Thirty-eight companies, mostly American and British, presently pump about 3.7 million barrels a day. Libya now ranks as the third largest oil exporter (after Venezuela and Iran). Since...