after hafez assad came to power in syria in 1970, one of his first priorities was to retake the joranghts from israel and heal the wounds of the defeats of the six day war. all this caused a deep alliance between assad and sadat to form against israel. at the same time, egypt and syria made great efforts to update the facilities of their armed forces, an important source of this equipment for these two alliance countries. it was the soviet union. there were several meetings between egypt and syria and soviet officials in moscow, and a flood of soviet advisers came to the middle east to equip the egyptian-syrian armies. sadat appointed general saad shazli as the commander of his armed forces , and entrusted him with the mission of improving the power of the egyptian army. he was the commander of the special forces of the egyptian army for many years and had a lot of experience in previous wars. general saad shazli started a marathon he spent day and night planning an attack on the sinai desert. the training of the egyptian army took place at different levels, from the equipping and tra

one more, joran, basketball players at dartmouth voted to join a yawnon and want their ivy leg -- uniony league teams to do the same thing. big picture, what does that mean for future of college sport s? >> basketball players on strike. college sports games -- if this is a trend and college sports unionize, they go on spike when demands aren't met and major disruptions to college basketball. i'm not going to pretend to be the biggest fan of college basketball, but i will say i remember a simpler time when they played basketball. stuart: that's an interesting perspective. going on strike, that's what unions are for. >> that's what hay do. stuart: tepper, you played baseball in college. how do you feel about a union for college sport s? >> every single professional sports league has a union, and i understand this is college but college is becoming a professional sports league as well. nil, transfer portal have changed the game and it's great these students now have the ability to get compensated via nils and things like that. i would have loved to have been compensated. when you're a big