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...least-that yet one more judgment was about to be rendered on the Arabs. From military spokesmen in Tel Aviv came assurances that Israeli troops rolling into battle were being deployed for little more than a mopping-up operation, and for several days world opinion was badly misled. The Suez war of 1956 took only 100 hours. The 1967 war lasted a mere six days. The speed and style of the Israelis-and the ineptness of the Arabs-had accustomed the world to swift battles in the Middle East, if not to peaceful solutions. Another, perhaps even swifter battle seemed...
...Sinai, the Egyptians, with 500 tanks, held onto the entire 103-mile length of the east bank of the Suez Canal. They seemed content for the moment to remain under the sheltering umbrella of Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles and artillery, taunting the Israelis to try to dislodge them from their defensive position. The mere fact that they had taken the eastern bank and the Israelis had been unable to push them back across the canal was in itself a significant military achievement...
Israeli and Egyptian tanks fought fiercely along the Suez Canal yesterday in what has become the biggest and perhaps the most decisive battle in the Middle East...
While the war escalated along the Suez, Egypt's official news agency said yesterday that Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin has held "three long meetings" with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in Cairo...
Egyptian military commanders said Egyptian troops have encircled Israeli forces near the Central Bitter Lakes section of the Suez canal. They called on Israelis there to "surrender or face complete destruction...