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...easily established air superiority in the previous Middle East war, had to destroy this fortress of SAMs and artillery. In the first week of the war, Israel had lost about one-fourth of its air force; most of the planes had been shot down by SAMs. Since a direct aerial assault on the missile sites might have proved suicidal, the Israelis chose to attack them instead on the ground...
...tactics of the major powers. In fact, two weeks of warfare between the Israeli and Arab armies has already taught military planners in both the Kremlin and the Pentagon that a classic offensive weapon developed by the Nazis during the Spanish Civil War-the tank onslaught with close aerial support-may be somewhat outmoded. That combination, used brilliantly by the Israelis in 1967 to win the Six-Day War, has proved to be far less effective this time, largely because of the vulnerability of aircraft and tanks to deadly new missiles...
Somewhere in Cambodia, peasants are trudging back to their bombed out villages. Although fighting still flares between the revolutionary Khmer Rouge and the American-backed Lon No1 government, the murderous American bombing ended over two months ago, called off by Congressional decree after 160 consecutive days of aerial...
Harvard kicked off to open the second half, and while the Crimson offense tried to counter the locker-room adjustments made by the Big Red at halftime, the defense thwarted Allen's aerial assault. Crimson captain and safety Dave St. Pierre, engaging in a brilliant battle with Cornell halfback Dan Malone during this period, repeatedly batted down Allen passes deep in the Harvard secondary...
...aerial bombings introduced a new and alarming note into the battle. Blackouts were imposed on cities on both sides. In Jerusalem, lights that had illuminated the Wailing Wall since it was taken from Jordan six years ago went out, along with the golden spotlights that were erected by Israel to shine on the walls of the Old City. At the Wailing Wall, the Torah was removed to safety. But the Arabs did not retaliate against Israeli cities during the first week of combat...