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...Even without the extra jets, Israel's air superiority puts it in good shape for what Defense Minister Moshe Dayan predicts will be "the electronic summer." This is the anticipated confrontation between Egypt's Soviet-supplied radar and surface-to-air missile systems, SA-2s and SA-3s, and Israeli jets loaded with sophisticated electronic countermeasure equipment...
Israeli intelligence reported that Russian planes have been arriving at Cairo airport in recent days at the rate of seven an hour-presumably bringing SA-3s as well as Soviet technicians to operate them. Ten to 15 SA3 sites have already been detected around Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan High Dam. Israel's tactic at the moment is to ignore distant installations but to attack possible sites within 15 miles of the Suez Canal. While bombing such sites last week, Israeli planes were intercepted by Egyptian MIG-21s. Four MIGs were downed in one running dogfight and five...
...large-scale offensive operations. She cannot even shell our lines for long because she knows that she will get it from the air. Once these missiles are installed, Egypt will feel freer to do whatever she wants. So one should not fall for the illusion that the SA-3s are defensive. They are being installed to give Egypt an offensive capability. The most severe aspect of the problem is the Sovietization of Egypt. Soviet troops will be operating in Egypt not only as advisers and technicians but as ordinary troops operating weapon systems. This, to my mind, is the most...
...where Israel enjoys vast popular support despite De Gaulle. The French President decreed the ban without consulting either Prime Minister Couve de Murville or Foreign Minister Michel Debré. Predictably, it raised a roar of political and editorial protest, especially so since De Gaulle has sold a dozen Mirage 3s to Lebanon and is dickering to sell 54 more to Iraq. Every major non-Communist paper in France denounced the ban on arms to Israel. In reply, De Gaulle harshly raised, through Information Minister Joël Le Theule, an old European phobia over Jewish influence in the press...
EVERYBODY in this shabby capital knows about it, but few will talk. The unmarked planes, however, are there for all to see: four DC-4s, three DC-3s and a single Constellation, parked on the palm-lined seaside tarmac. Patient research shows that the aircraft have varied registration-French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned...