sentences:  The first close combat commenced in the 74th Battalion's northernmost sector, against the Moroccan Brigade of thirty tanks.One Israeli Centurion was hit, and an Israeli platoon that was sent northward to guard the Dan Road was caught between the Moroccans moving against Tel Shaeta and a Syrian battalion closing in from the west.Avner Landau's company, now with seven Centurions, was also threatened and could not help.