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...Israeli guns would be 25 to 45 miles from the Suez Canal, out of range of Egypt's vital waterway and the new settlements President Sadat plans to establish on its banks. The lines would be drawn, however, so that Israel would retain the big Bir Gifgafa airfield...
...spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield in northern Israel and stowed their guns and gear aboard a Bell 205 helicopter belonging to the Israeli air force. They kept their faces covered so that even members of the helicopter crew were not able to get a good look at them...
...authority over such decisions. Current federal regulations accord them that right. At each airport the Federal Aviation Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need for clearer standards for determining when wind shear presents grave dangers, as well as tougher guidelines on what course to take when it does...
...Penh in a radio broadcast, to be transmitted internationally, that he would halt military operations as soon as the Mayaguez's crew was released. At 8:45 p.m. (7:45 a.m. Cambodian time), A-6 Intruders and A-7 Corsairs took off from the Coral Sea to bomb Ream Airfield near Kompong...
...sipping after-dinner drinks in the Red Room, sailors aboard the Wilson observed the approach of a Thai fishing boat, which had been seized by the Cambodians in March. Its passengers, including the Mayaguez's crew, were frantically waving white handkerchiefs. Minutes later, the U.S. planes began bombing Ream Airfield, destroying 17 Cambodian aircraft, mostly U.S.-built T-28 trainers that Cambodia's deposed Lon Nol government had got from the U.S. In a second raid about an hour later, U.S. jets bombed and destroyed an oil depot near Kompong...