Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islands. In both cases, the results were spectacular and unmistakeable. Israeli fliers in ultra-modern McDonnell Douglas F-15 planes shot down 40 Syrian planes in the first month of the invasion without losing a single jet. They also destroyed 19 surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley in a single battle, again with no Israeli losses...
...intelligence network around the globe has picked up fragments of Soviet anguish about how come the Israelis, flying American F-15s and 16s over Lebanon, shot down Syrians flying MiG-23s at a ratio of 83 to zip. And how come those SAM-6s and 8s in the Bekaa Valley, the same kind of missile that devastated the Israelis in the 1973 war, could hit only one enemy plane this time...
...like a firecracker. There were angry rebuttals, flurries of military meetings. Leonid Zamyatin, the Kremlin's chief propagandist, went on Moscow television to wash away doubts with his rotund tones. General Yevgeni Yurasov, deputy head of Soviet air defense, gathered up his experts and headed to the Bekaa Valley to study the scorched debris...
...sees it, "Israel needs freedom of operation in the region, and will achieve it either by political means or by its own independent military power." And Sharon has made it clear that Israel intends to reply to any threat in its own way; i.e., a P.L.O. raid in the Bekaa Valley might touch off an Israeli foray into Beirut, Tunis or Tripoli...
...first time the Israelis had gone into west Beirut in force since they invaded Lebanon 14 weeks ago to rout the PLO Several thousand guerillas are still in the country many of them in the eastern Bekaa Valley camped with some 25,000 Syrian troops whom the Israelis also want...