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When the first shells whistled in, off-guard Israeli troops were playing a Sabbath soccer game. Within moments along the 70-mile Suez front, Egyptian gunners had opened up with everything from long-range artillery to Russian-made Katyusha rockets. In all, 15 Israeli soldiers were killed and 34 wounded, mostly in the first rounds. The Israelis fired back, accounting for five Egyptian dead and nine wounded. It was the second artillery ambush by the Egyptians in seven weeks, and the first in which the Israelis emerged second best...
...week, Cairo had feted a group of MIG fighter pilots who claimed to have recently shot down three Israeli planes (the Israelis dryly commented that "all of our planes returned safely to base"). Now Egypt's War Minister and Commander in Chief, Lieut. General Muhammad Fawzi, visited the Suez front, liberally passing out medals and praise...
...main strength is tankers, and wisely so. In the mid-1950s, when Onassis began building supertankers, which later grew to 250,000 tons, he was told that they would never pay because they could not negotiate the Suez Canal. When Nasser closed the canal in 1956, Onassis made more millions with his swift hauls around the Cape...
...East resolution passed last November. In effect, it called for both Israeli troop withdrawals and Arab recognition of the right of every state in the area "to live in peace." The Egyptians also said that once a settlement was achieved, Israeli ships would be permitted the use of the Suez Canal...
...clear desert air, Israeli outposts along the Suez Canal were readily visible targets for Egyptian gunners. The Egyptians aimed their artillery well in advance. Then last week, they suddenly opened up along the 70 miles of the canal with the heaviest sustained barrage that the Arabs have succeeded in laying on the Israelis since their hostilities began in 1948. As shells whined in around them, the surprised Israelis fired back. In a 31-hour duel before both sides bowed to a United Nations cease-fire call, the Egyptians killed ten Israeli soldiers and wounded 18. Israeli shells killed five Egyptian...