Word: dogfighter
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...border settlements, leaving behind dead and wounded. In reprisal, Eshkol sent supersonic fighters zipping eight miles into Syria near the Sea of Galilee. They destroyed earth-moving equipment used by the Arabs on a project to divert the sources of the Jordan River away from Israel. In an ensuing dogfight, Israel's air force bagged a Syrian MIG-21, the first ever to be shot down by a French-made Mirage...
With returns in from all but eight of California's 30,586 precincts, Conservative Reagan had 1,385,550 votes to 663,199 for Dairyman George Christopher, a moderate Republican and former mayor of San Francisco. The G.O.P.'s 2-to-l choice underscored the Democratic dogfight in which Brown got 1,334,286 votes v. 994,821 for his principal opponent, Los Angeles' Mayor Samuel Yorty, a feisty maverick who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and calls Brown a "captive of left-wingers...
Whatever the arguments, it was clear that China was once again talking tough. "This is an extremely grave incident," said the Peking report of the dogfight, "a deliberate, systematic act of war provocation by the Johnson Administration...
Talking Tough. To China-watchers, it all signaled a momentary victory for the hard-line Maoists over the adherents of a more subtle, less warlike foreign policy. That view was partially corroborated by the Chinese claim of a border dogfight in which one Red Chinese jet was shot down. Peking charged that the plane was engaged in a routine training flight inside Red China when five American "pirates" jumped it with air-to-air missiles and sent it crashing into Yunnan province. U.S. jets were indeed operating in the border area at the time, and claimed a kill themselves...
Myopic SAM. To Peking's claim that the dogfight took place over Chinese territory, the U.S. replied that the RB-66 was at least 50 miles south of China. And it was there for a reason: last week U.S. aircraft mounted a record 135 missions in one day over North Viet Nam, plastering targets from Dienbien-phu to Vinh and striking to within ten miles of the strategic port of Haiphong. The RB-66s help far-flying U.S. fighter-bombers to find their targets over the jungle-masked rivers and roads of North Viet Nam. They also aid them...