"I wish something exciting would happen," Lieut. Anthony Moorhouse, 20, wrote his family from Suez. Life after the cease-fire was getting monotonous for a young officer doing his national service with the British forces in Egypt. His father, a prosperous jam and preserves manufacturer from Leeds, read the letter in a taxi en route to a business engagement in London and smiled at his eldest son's restiveness. For the moment the headlines on the news vendor's sign just across the street seemed remote and unimportant. BRITISH OFFICER KIDNAPED IN PORT SAID, they...
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