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...battlewagon that ended up as a target ship for General Billy Mitchell's famed demonstration of air power in 1923. Today's New Jersey faces a potential new threat, in the form of North Vietnam's Russian-made Styx missiles, which sank the Israeli destroyer Elath last October. Just in case the North Vietnamese venture to use the Styx, the New Jersey carries its own secret countermeasures against missiles and is escorted by two missile-firing cruisers...
...Mediterranean Sea. Then, when Israel came up with the same idea following the Six-Day War-and with the canal closed indefinitely-the race was on. Last week, getting the jump on the Egyptians, Israel started construction of a $113 million pipeline project linking the port of Elath on the Gulf of Aqaba to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean. Bulldozers at both ends of the planned, 160-mile line began clearing sand dunes to make way for oil-storage tanks. The 42-in pipeline, which is being built by Israeli, U.S. and French technicians, should be able to transmit 15 million...
...Sons of Canaan from Sidon, the city of the king," runs the translation. "Commerce has cast us on this distant shore, a land of mountains." The tablet tells of ten Phoenician trading vessels that embarked from the ancient port of Ezion-geber (near the modern Israeli town of Elath) on the Gulf of Aqaba, possibly in the 7th century B.C. Presumably, they sailed through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have been swept across the Atlantic to the coast...
Israel's retaliatory thrust, they had made six attacks, ranging from outright firefights to a bomb set off in Jerusalem. In the worst incident, they blew up a bus carrying the children of government workers on a tour of the remains of King Solomon's mines near Elath, killing two adults and wounding 28 of the 44 children on board...
...range of 200 miles. The Krupny-and KiWm-class destroyers carry the 100-mile range SSN1 missiles, and the speedy Osa and Komar torpedo boats are armed with Styx missiles, whose effective range is 20 miles. A Styx fired by the Egyptians from a Komar sank the Israeli destroyer Elath off Port Said last October. U.S. Navymen insist that their planes would knock out Soviet ships before they got within firing range of U.S. warships or, failing that, that U.S. antiaircraft rockets would intercept the missiles in flight. But the U.S. Navy has now started work on ship-to-ship...