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...join the fight against Israel. They dispatched an armada of AN-12 and AN-22 air freighters carrying as much as 13,000 tons of war supplies to the Arab forces. At least 50,000 tons of supplies also arrived at the Arab ports of Alexandria, Tartus and Latakia aboard 18 Russian ships. Only when it appeared that the Israelis were on the verge of encircling and eliminating the Egyptian Third Army-and, among other things, capturing a vast store of modern Soviet weaponry-did Moscow change its line and call for a halt to the fighting...
...largest air transports, the turboprop AN-22, which has a payload of 80 tons (30 tons less than the giant U.S. C-5A Galaxy). The Soviets also transported an unknown quantity of supplies by ship from Black Sea ports through the Bosporus to the Syrian ports of Tartus and Latakia and to Alexandria in Egypt...
More Raids. In the course of the week, other Israeli air raids were carried out on the smaller Syrian cities of Homs, Latakia and Tartus. Additional foreign casualties were inflicted at Latakia when bomb fragments hit the 1,480-ton Greek freighter Tsimentavron, which was anchored in the harbor, and two seamen were killed. At Tartus, the Soviet freighter Ilya Mechnikov, which was reportedly unloading equipment for Syria's new Euphates Dam, was badly damaged by an Israeli missile, and a Japanese vessel was also reported sunk. The Russians immediately accused Israel of "barbarous" attacks on non-military targets...
...effectively than the Arabs have their lighter Russian-made T-54/55s. Neither side has had much opportunity to 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...
...ironmonger. Nobody but Ambler is quite so willing to risk boring us with the crucial facts-why the Russian rocket needs a special mounting flange to take a Chinese fuse, why it isn't all that simple to plot a new course for a merchant vessel sailing from Latakia to Alexandria, why the Agence Howell (shipping, light manufacturing, fast footwork) needs to get its capital out of Syria before the next revolution...