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...appearances, Egypt is not nearly as well prepared for a renewal of fighting as is Syria, since it has received relatively little new military equipment from the So^ viet Union since the end of the war/ Moreover, Sadat is allowing civilians to return to the cities along the Suez Canal that were turned into ghost towns by the 1969-70 war of attrition and is pressing ahead with plans for a longterm, $7 billion reconstruction of the Canal Zone. Technically, the canal could be opened as early as next March or April (four Egyptian vessels, in fact, sailed its full...
...Another war will be much more costly than the last one in all respects. For instance, we are rebuilding the cities in the Suez Canal Zone. If the Israelis bomb those cities, we will retaliate...
...situation could deteriorate. Explained one Foreign Ministry official: "If they want no more war, then they have to give us something tangible for any further withdrawals." Among such tangibles might be an arrangement for direct tourist travel between the two countries or the passage of Israeli cargoes through the Suez Canal, which is expected to reopen in March...
First there was the War of Independence, then the Sinai war, the Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the Yom Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left...
After these limbering-up exercises, any player should be able to throw away his copy of The Best (itself a Best Idea) and venture out on the masters' circuit. Here the tournament becomes reminiscent of Kipling's "somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst." Some cases in point...