Troops of the United Arab Republic entered the Sinai Peninsula and deployed toward the Israel border, it was reported today in a broadcast over Radio Cairo monitored here.
The radio said the soldiers had entered the scene of Israel’s lightning victory over Egypt in 1956 to “fight locusts. ” Military observers here, however, believe that the number of troops and the range of their movements is far in excess of what is needed to fight the insect pests.
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