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...international law." Air strikes were also flown against Egypt. Cairo claimed that 500 civilians were killed in air and artillery attacks on Port Said. Along the coast, meanwhile, missile boats of the Israeli and Syrian navies fought several battles around Latakia and Tartus. The Israelis claimed that their Gabriel missiles had sunk eleven Syrian vessels in the course of four engagements. The Syrians said that they had destroyed eleven Israeli boats...
Curious Battle. Off the Syrian coast, the first naval encounter ended in a clear-cut Israeli victory: missile boats armed with the highly touted Israeli-made Gabriel missile attacked and sank four Syrian missile ships of the Russian Komar class and one small motor torpedo boat...
...test how effectively they use the surface-to-air missiles protecting their base areas and cities. But by sinking four of Syria's Soviet-built Komar missile boats off Latakia on Saturday, the Israeli navy has shown how skillfully it has mastered the made-in-Israel radar-guided Gabriel missiles. Most Western military analysts expect the Israeli forces to defeat the combined Arab forces. But if Israel should find itself facing extinction, it is widely assumed that it possesses nuclear weapons, which its leaders might risk the wrath of world opinion by employing. Israel is thought to have...
...decision to keep Amalrik in prison is part of a stepped-up Soviet campaign against "liberal" intellectuals. Only last winter the underground journal Chronicle of Current Events was forced by the secret police to suspend publication. Gabriel Superfin, editor of the memoirs of Soviet Elder Statesman Anastas Mikoyan, was arrested last month on suspicion of having helped publish the journal, and Historian Pyotr Yakir and Economist Viktor Krasin have been held in jail without trial for more than a year on related charges. Amalrik was flown to Moscow to be questioned in the case but refused to cooperate-a fact...
...generally attributed to the French author and diplomat Gabriel Joseph de LaVergne, Vicomte de Guilleragues. When first published, the book was described as a French translation of five genuine letters...