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Extraordinary Accuracy. The answers were quickly delivered, in the biggest outbreak of violence since the end of the war. Less than 67 hours after the destroyer Elath went down, Israeli gunners opened up from positions on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Their weapons were heavy mortars, their tactics a technique known as a rolling barrage, their target Port Suez-and the refineries that produce all of Egypt's cooking and heating...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Oct. 24--Egypt and Israel fought a roaring battle of artillery and mortars at the southern end of the Suez Canal Tuesday that caused heavy damage to Egypt's Port Suez. A huge refinery complex in Port Suez was left blazing and Egypt charged that the port's inhabited area was "almost demolished...
...Security Council was called into urgent session to consider Egypt's charges of Israeli aggression. Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed A. El-Kony claimed that the shelling of Port Suez began immediately after an extraordinary meeting of the Israeli cabinet and could not be considered an isolated incident. It "It went far beyond any minor violation of the cease-fire," the ambassador said, "and cannot be considered less than full military operations, which are an act of war under the U.N. charter...
...officer and instructor, and from time to time, probably saved his life. For the first three days of the Six Day War, Nadav criss-crossed the blue skies over Sinai, raking Egyptian planes and armor with his French Super Mystere jet. Then, with Israeli troops on the Suez, he arced north to pound the Syrian heights opposite Ayeleth...
Permanent peace in the Middle East seems more than ever a mirage in the desert of Arab-Israeli antipathies. Egyptian and Israeli artillery dueled across the Suez Canal last week with unsettling and dangerous regularity. The casualties of an uncertain truce are beginning to rise. Some 100 Egyptians were killed in last week's exchanges, along with half a dozen Israelis. In a growing war of Arab terrorism in Israeli-occupied territory, Israel lost its first lives since the war: a three-year-old child and two policemen...