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...Israel reported that it fought "the biggest armored clash" in its military history yesterday along the Suez Canal...
...fathers had reached the frontiers which were recognized in the 1948 partition plan," Dayan said in 1969. "Now the Six-Day Generation has managed to reach Suez, Jordan and the Golan Heights. This is not the end. After the present cease-fire lines, there will be new ones. They will extend beyond Jordan--perhaps to Lebanon and perhaps to central Syria as well...
Sadat himself did little to close this credibility gap. As a result, friends and enemies alike long ago decided that his calls for confrontation were insincere. For one thing, Egypt seemed to be pathetically ill-prepared for any battle, militarily or economically. The troops mobilized along the Suez Canal seemed to be in uniform as much to keep many of them out of civilian unemployment statistics as to harass Israel. Largely because of faulty distribution facilities, there were shortages of everything from cooking oil to the tomatoes that Egyptians love. Corruption was rampant, protests increased, and repression followed. When university...
...quarrel with Israel from Palestinian territorial demands that scarcely concerned Egypt. Only last week, in what seemed like the most conciliatory move of all, Cairo announced that the U.S.'s Bechtel Corp. had been chosen to construct a new $345 million pipeline between the Gulf of Suez and the Mediterranean (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) even though Cairo and Washington have not had any formal diplomatic relations since...
Even before the Six-Day War of 1967 shut down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise...