Word: bekaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley." Two days later, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Robert C. Wurmstedt, with the Beirut airport still shut down, hired a taxi for the three-hour drive from Damascus, dodging Syrian tanks on the ground and hearing Israeli jets overhead. Reaching the Lebanese capital, he found a city filled with rumors, refugees...
...biggest air battles ever in the Middle East, more than 150 Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clashed in the skies over Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The Israeli aircraft destroyed all of the SA-6 ground-to-air missiles that Israel had repeatedly threatened to obliterate. Israeli ground forces rolled to within two miles of the vital Damascus-to-Beirut highway, threatening to sever Syria's supply lifeline to its estimated 30,000 troops in the Bekaa Valley and in Beirut...
Sharon's strategic conduct of the Israeli invasion won praise from military officials. After the Israeli air force successfully destroyed the Syrian missiles that had been deployed in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley for more than a year, some of his former opponents in the defense echelon quickly joined Sharon's camp. Said one general: "There is nobody right now who is ready to oppose him or question his orders. He's got the upper hand." Sharon's unchallenged military authority, however, worried some political leaders. Said a veteran observer of the Israeli military scene...
...successful Israeli air strikes on Syrian SA-6 mobile missiles in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley demonstrated that modern air war is as much a matter of computer array v5. computer array as man against...
...been considered. One is a coordinated pincer movement, with the Israelis moving north into Lebanon while the Christians push southward. Another option is all-out war, which would mean Israeli attacks not only on the forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization but on Syrian bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and along the Golan Heights...