Word: antiaircraft
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...action produced exactly the effect that the Nigerians had anticipated. Most food flights flown by civilian crews have been grounded until flight rules can be worked out that are agreeable to both combatants. Planes that do make the flight are targets for the newly unleashed MIGs or for antiaircraft fire that appears to be directed by five radar-equipped Russian trawlers lying off the coast. Flying into Uli aboard one such flight last week, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found Biafrans grim. The struggling country had a good harvest recently, but supplies will last no longer than three months. Food rationing...
...junctions on the sprawling city's edges. Sonic booms occasionally rattle the windows of Cairenes as MIG fighters scramble daily on simulated interception missions. Through the clear air, as gun crews perfect their skills in the nearby desert, come the crump of artillery and the rhythmic tat too of antiaircraft fire...
...heavily guarded military checkpoints. In the surrounding hills, thousands of troops are emplaced to block the traditional north-south invasion route. Along the 151-mile-long DMZ itself, more than 300,000 U.S., South Korean and allied troops stand guard, backed by a layer of Hawk and Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles...
...intelligence claims that a string of at least ten Communist base areas stretches along the Cambodian border with Viet Nam, stockpiled with enough supplies to last two divisions several months. The sanctuaries are well-dispersed, camouflaged, defended by antiaircraft guns, and are said to contain training as well as rest camps. U.S. officers claim that as much as 60% of Communist supplies for III and IV Corps, the southern areas of South Viet Nam, now are funneled in via the Cambodian ports of Sihanoukville...
...time from Sāo Tomé, is shrunken Biafra's lone remaining link with the world, the night shuttle frequently hauls passengers as well. A visitor has to be nerveless to endure the trip. Approaching the coast at dusk, the planes are occasionally shot at by Nigerian antiaircraft batteries. When they reach Uli, homing in on the airfield's radio beacon, they face worse harassment from a twin-engine Nigerian Ilyushin the pilots call "the Intruder." The Ilyushin hovers over blacked-out Uli every night for four hours, drops 500-lb. bombs from time to time...