Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Responding in kind, the U.S. employed giant C-5A, C-130 and C-141 cargo planes to carry 5,000 tons of equipment to Israel. Promising to replace Israel's heavy aircraft losses, the Pentagon began speeding Phantom jet fighters to the war zone. Two U.S. attack carriers and two amphibious assault carriers, each bearing 1,800 Marines, began gathering in the eastern Mediterranean, and some 50 U.S. Air Force personnel were sent to Israel to help with the airlift. President Nixon asked Congress for an emergency appropriation of $2.2 billion for Israeli resupply...
...greets you almost as soon as you arrive in Syria's capital. At perhaps 25,000 ft. over this city of mosques and markets, an Israeli jet, easily visible to the eye, explodes in a tiny flash and a puff of whitish smoke. Seconds later, a dull thump is heard as it crashes to the ground. The fighter plane was the victim of a "Soviet SAM," as Damascenes call their wonder weapon. The successes of the Soviet missiles are a major reason why the almost 900,000 citizens of Damascus seem relatively relaxed and unworried, even though...
...strict censorship. They hardly notice the camouflaged trucks of the Syrian army that continually rumble through the wide, European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some lightheartedly boast that when they hear a jet overhead they know whether it is an Israeli Phantom or one of their own Soviet-built MIG-21s. One Damascene explained: "The Phantom sound is softer. When you hear it, it is already gone...
...suddenness of the fighting created some curious anomalies on both sides. Despite a blackout, the shop-window lights on Tel Aviv's fashionable Dizengoff Street and Allenby Road snapped on automatically at sundown; shopkeepers quickly turned them off. In Cairo, which lies but seven minutes by jet from the canal, the streets were brightly lit for hours after sundown. "You mean," demanded a sidewalk vendor in disbelief, "that we are fighting Israel with all these lights on?" By late evening, when the government ordered that all electric lights and headlights be daubed with blue paint, the war reports seemed...
...Israel so that Soviet Jewish emigrants could be processed in an orderly-and secure-manner on Austrian soil. For the Austrians, the facility was a troublesome presence. It had to be guarded by a force of 150 Austrian police with dogs. Every train from the east or El Al jet from Israel had to be protected. Before long, the Austrians feared, an incident might occur similar to last year's Munich massacre. The solution was to close the center that was a natural mass target for Arab terror...