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ollowing is a timeline of the
1973 Yom Kippur War.
* Oct. 6, 1973 — Egypt
and Syria launch a coordinated attack
on Israeli positions along the Suez
Canal and in the Golan Heights.
Egyptian troops cross the canal, secure
a beachhead in the eastern portion of
the Sinai Desert, breaching Israel's
Bar-Lev line. Syrian troops defeat
Israeli forces on Mt. Hermon in
northern Israel.
* Oct. 7, 1973 — Syria captures
most of the southern portion of the
Golan Heights.
* Oct. 8, 1973 — Israel launches
its first counterattack against Egypt,
which is unsuccessful. The Soviet
Union supplies additional arms to
Syria and Egypt.
* Oct. 9, 1973 — Against orders,
reserve Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon
launches a counterattack against
Egyptian forces in the canal area.
Sharon's actions lead to moves for his
dismissal.
* Oct. 9, 1973 — U.S. Jewish
leader Max Fisher urges President
Richard Nixon in a meeting at the
White House to "please send the
Israelis what they need." That night,
Nixon tells Israeli Prime Minister
Golda Meir that "all your aircraft and
tank losses will be replaced."
* Oct. 10, 1973 — Washington
authorizes an airlift of military sup-
plies to Israel after the Soviet Union
sends additional arms to Egypt. Israel
successfully attacks Egyptian troops
that have moved out of range of their
protective surface-to-air-missile
umbrella. Israel recaptures most of the
territory in the southern Golan.
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* Oct. 11, 1973 — Israel attacks
Syria from its positions on the Golan
Heights. The Soviet Union's ambas-
sador to the United States, Anatoly
Dobrynin, tells U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger that Soviet airborne
forces are on the alert to defend
Damascus. Kissinger warns Dobrynin
that if the Soviet forces send troops to
the Middle East, the United States will
as well.
* Oct. 12-13, 1973 — The United
States sends additional arms shipments
to Israel.
* Oct. 14, 1973
In one of the
largest tank battles ever fought, Israel
is estimated to have lost 10 tanks and
the Egyptians anywhere from 250 to
300. Iraq and Jordan send troops to
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the Golan, in response to appeals for
assistance from Syria.
* Oct. 16, 1973 — The first Israeli
troops cross the Suez Canal.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
asks the Soviet Union to convene the
United Nations and seek a cease fire.
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* Oct. 17, 1973
Ten Arab mem-
ber-nations of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
announce they will cut oil production
until Israel withdraws from Arab terri-
tory captured during the 1967 Six-
Day War and the rights of the
Palestinian people are "restored." This
embargo is not lifted completely until
March 1974.
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* Oct. 20, 1973 — Israeli forces
reach within 10 miles of Damascus.
* Oct. 21, 1973 — Israeli forces,
led by reserve Maj. Gen. Avraham
Adan, encircle the Egyptian Third
Army. Forces led by Sharon take up
positions less than 40 miles from
Cairo.
* Oct. 22, 1973 — Israel overruns
all Syrian positions on Mt. Hermon.
The United Nations adopts Security
Council Resolution 338, which calls
for an immediate cease-fire and imple-
mentation of Security Council
Resolution 242, which calls for an
exchange of land for peace and negoti-
ations between the "parties concerned"
aimed at establishing a "just and
durable peace."
* Oct. 23, 1973 —Fighting contin-
ues despite the cease-fire. The United
Nations Security Council passes
Resolution 339, which restates the
group's call for an immediate cease-fire
and asks for the dispatch of U.N.
observers to the area.
* Oct. 24, 1973 — A second cease-
fire is put into effect, but fighting con-
tinues between Egypt and Israel. As a
result, the Soviet Union threatens the
United States that it will send troops
to support the Egyptians. The United
States puts its nuclear forces on a
higher alert. The Soviet Union with-
draws its threat the following .day.
* Oct. 28, 1973 — Israeli and
Egyptian military leaders meet to
implement the cease fire at the
Kilometer 101 marker in the Sinai. It
is the first meeting between military
representatives of the two countries in
25 years. Israel has lost roughly 2,500
soldiers; Syria, 3,500. Egyptian casual-
ties are unknown. ❑
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Compiled by Peter Ephross