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...from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron of F model MIG-21s, which boast greater speed, longer range and a bigger payload capacity than the D models previously supplied to Cuba...
...Button Pushers. Phase I, as the Israelis see it, began last March when Soviet SA3 ground-to-air missiles were shipped to Egypt along with Russian crews to man them. Phase 2 soon followed when MIG-21s manned by Russian pilots began to fly operational missions in Egypt. Planes and missiles were deployed around Cairo, Alexandria and in the interior of Egypt to bar Israel's jets, which had been carrying on deep-penetration bombing raids to ease pressure on troops along the Suez Canal...
...potential political effect of the bill may disappoint the Democrats, who clearly believe Nixon fears a bloc of young voters and will suffer at their hands in 1972. In the four states where under-21s now vote-Georgia, Kentucky, Alaska and Hawaii-the evidence is that young voters tend to divide roughly as their parents do. Furthermore, statistics show that the younger the voting group, the lower the percentage actually voting. And the President could also take heart from the news from England, where 18-year-olds voted for the first time last week. They clearly did not hurt Conservative...
...many as 100 MIG-21j interceptors, along with 70 to 100 Soviet pilots plus crewmen. The planes, with a longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs. Only once, so far as is known, have they and Israeli pilots encountered one another; in Aoril, over Lake Qurun southwest of Ca;ro, Israelis suddenly discovered that the MIGs they were about to jump were being flown by Russian-speaking pilots. Both sides backed away and have steered clear ever since...
...Sudanese Strongman Major General Jaafar Nemery, who, celebrating the first anniversary of the coup that brought him to power in Khartoum, had asked Nasser to join the festivities. Nemery has admitted 1,000 Soviet military advisers and economic technicians to Sudan. Several are training his pilots to fly MIG-21s. East Germany, meanwhile, provides advisers for Nemery's increasingly elaborate internal-security program...