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SYRIA lost 103 of its 200 MIG-21 jets in the October war, and 36 of its 80 MIG-17s. The U.S.S.R. has not only replaced all the downed planes with fast MIG-21s but given the Syrians 45 MIG-23 fighter-bombers, the Russian equivalents of the vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well...
...under-21s are not the only ones who are drinking more. Reversing past patterns, which showed middle-aged men the most prone to alcoholism, there has recently been a marked increase in alcoholism among people in their 20s and 30s and among women. In the '50s, by National Institute of Mental Health estimates, one of every five or six alcoholics was a woman; the ratio is now one woman for every four men. These figures may in fact be understating the problem for women, because a nonworking woman, who does not have to punch a time clock or stand...
...European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some lightheartedly boast that when they hear a jet overhead they know whether it is an Israeli Phantom or one of their own Soviet-built MIG-21s. One Damascene explained: "The Phantom sound is softer. When you hear it, it is already gone...
Patrolling in leisurely fashion off the Syrian coast near the port of Tartus last week, the two Israeli reconnaissance jets looked deceptively vulnerable. They were, after all, 125 nautical miles from the nearest Israeli border. But when alert Syrian MiG-21s moved in for the kill, the sitting ducks turned out to be seductive decoys. Israeli Phantoms and Mirages flying cover high overhead in the partly overcast skies pounced on the Syrian planes. In what was by far the biggest air battle in the Middle East since the 1967 Six-Day War, 13 Syrian MIGS were downed and one Israeli...
...least, is an attempt to draw Egypt back into the battle. Last week Syrian artillery once again pounded Israeli positions on the occupied Golan Heights, including the new settlement of Benei Yehuda. Israeli Phantoms scrambled to hit back at the Syrian guns and to tangle with the MIG-21s that climbed to meet them...