Israeli Officer Captured; Israel Blasts
Egyptian Positions; Lebanese Tensions
Renewed; Paper Victories Claim Exposed
were downed by gunfire and air to
Force jets blasted Egyptian mili- air missiles. Ile said the pilot of
lacy positions in the central sec- one plane was seen bailing out.
in of the SM. / Canal zone Mon- another plane exploded on reach-
day morning after an Egyptian ing the ground and the third ex-
commando raid Sunday across the ploded in mid-air. All Israeli air-
Canal that resulted in the death craft were reported to have n-
ot' one Israeli soldier and the cap- turned safely to their bases.
Israeli jets staged a two-and-
tore of an officer by the Egyp-
a-half hour attack on Egyptian
tians. A third Israeli soldier was
positions
in the Suez Canal zone
wounded in the attack • and hos-
p.talized. Dec. 11 and returned safely to
base. Five Israeli soldiers were
A military spokesman said all
wounded, one of them fatally.
planes returned safely from the
in an Egyptian artillery attack
sortie. Tension mounted Monday
along Israel's northern border in the Dever Suwer section of
the
canal. Two Arab saboteurs
following a bazooka and small
were killed in an encounter with
arms attack from Lebanese ter-
Israeli
border police near Me-
ritory Saturday night that fatally
tullah on the Lebanese border.
wounded two Israelis in NietoIlah.
The saboteurs apparently - in-
Villagers reported that Lebanese
civilians were evacuating t h e i r tended to plant explosives at a
road-building
equipment pool near-
for
homes in the area, apparently
fear of Israeli retaliation. Israeli by. Israeli artillery exchanged fire
with
Jordanian
and Iraq batteries
artillery has shelled several Leb-
anese villages in the areas. It was in the Beisan Valley area last
learned that units of the Lebanese night following mortar attacks on
Army have re-occupied the south- Yardena. lIaon and Ashdot Yaa-
ern slopes of Mount Hermon, a coy. Israeli long range guns
position they had relinquished to shelled the Jordanian town of Ir-
guerrillas following last month's bid aided by flares dropped from
Cairo agreements between Leb- Israeli planes.
anese authorities and the Pales- ! The air battle over Damascus
tinian commando leaders.
! culminated three days of artillery
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three Russian-built Syrian MIGS
in a dogfight over Damascus as
to
, to Moscow.
Egyptian lo,scs were 20 planes
although Cairo officially admitted
the loss of only six.
The terrorCl organizations have
also ado•trd the Egyptian system
of clannin sus victories."
the Israelis dec'are. In August,
the terror groups claimed to have
carried out 501 actions. :At least
40 per cent o!' these were imagin-
ary with no indication that they
were ever even attemnted. In Sep-
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seas 369. 50 per cent of which
were imaginary in October, the
percentage of imaginary attacks
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An Israeli military spokesman
denied a report in the semi- Heights, according to an Israeli I.abor Party, was elected secre
tary-general of Histadrut Tuesday I
official Cairo newsnaper Al Ah- military spokesman.
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ram Tuesday of heavy artillery
Work was halted temporarily Becker.
duels all along the Suez Canal while United Nations observers
during the last 24 hours.
and Israeli surveyors examined
The newspaper said direct hits the road building site and agreed
were scored by Egyptian gunners that it was well within Israeli-
and claimed that the fighting was occupied territory. When the work
"highly exhausting" for Israel. resumed, the Syrian batteries
The Israeli spokesman said opened up again and Israeli ar-
there was no major fighting along tillery returned the fire. Direct
the waterway during the past 24 • hits wer e scored on a Syrian
hours. He said the last Egyptian bunker and two anti-tank gun sites.
attack occurred Dec. 14, when Syrian soldiers were seen running
commandoes killed one Israeli as ambulances drew: up to evacu-
soldier• wounded a second and ate casualties. But the Syrians
kidnaped an Israeli officer in an renewed their fire. Israeli jets
went into action and Syrian jets
ambush.
Al Abram also claimed that rose to meet them in an aerial
Israeli forces suffered 100 dead battle that developed over Dam-
aSCUS.
or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Israeli circles said that this and
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Israeli
other "extravagant" claims by
Al Abram and other Egyptian, sources said the Egyptian govern-
newspapers were intended to meat had apparently embarked
on a program of claiming "papy-
buil d Egypt's stature at the
sus victories" in order to bolster
forthcoming Arab summit con-
Arab morale in advance of the
Terence at Rabat.
summit meeting at Rabat later
this month and on the eve of the
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