Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bush had volunteered to take the place of an ailing artillery spotter. For staying aloft 2½hours despite intense antiaircraft fire, he was awarded a Bronze Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...week's end, the Israelis finally explained the disastrous Abu Zabal bombing as "an incredible coincidence." The pilot was approaching the target at high speed and evading antiaircraft fire when his radar bombsight failed. While seeking his target visually, he saw reference points-an Arab village, long, low buildings, sand dunes and a road intersection -that looked exactly like those he had been told to look for as he approached a military base at Khanka. Actually, they were identical to features in Abu Zabal, two miles away from the intended target...
...diplomats, foreign oilmen and well-to-do Egyptians. Housewives ducked into basements, and the 300 students at Cairo's American College, three blocks from the besieged camp, were herded to the interior of their building as windows began shattering. For the first time since the 1967 war, antiaircraft fire boomed in central Cairo...
...forth over the industrialized landscape; the image exudes an eery sense of ancestors' graves plowed under, of the young dead and the old too infirm to protest. Gershfield then moves back to the negative-positive strobe; only much faster now-the beaten faces seem to be illuminated by antiaircraft fire or shells bursting all around them. One strange close-up even suggests a Vietnamese. A funeral ceremony in stills appears to draw the film to a familiar conclusion of bitter defeat when a thunderclap sounds and we return to the first shot-green sands swept by a red wind...
...recent weeks, Israeli jets have repeatedly blasted military installations near Cairo-the closest strike coming just nine miles from the city. Egyptian opposition was patchy, though one Israeli jet was downed by antiaircraft fire. Israel enjoys mastery of the air, which it aims to use to make life miserable for Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Late in the week, Israeli commandos struck within 36 miles of Cairo-the closest that Israeli ground forces have ever operated to the Egyptian capital...