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The October War
6–25 Oct 1973 — Egypt storms the Suez Canal; Israel recovers and crosses it; both superpowers airlift arms and go on nuclear alert. Then OPEC turns oil into a weapon and quadruples the price.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Third World Front in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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