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...ground in Chad for a long time, despite the Libyan leader's frequent denials. More important, the prisoners were tangible evidence of the biggest victory of the Chad army since the latest round of fighting began in 1982. Gaddafi responded to the defeat at Fada by dispatching four MiG-23s to bomb the towns of Arada and Oum Chalouba. The raid did little damage, yet it was important because it carried the war south of the 16th parallel. In 1983 France set that line as the point beyond which Libyan military interference would not be tolerated...
...more will be needed to warm Moscow-Tokyo relations. The two countries, which never signed a peace treaty after World War II, have been at odds over the four northern islands off Hokkaido, where the Soviets have 10,000 troops and 40 advanced MiG-23s. Sovereignty over the islands, occupied by the Soviets at the end of the war, remains a highly divisive issue. Last August there was a modest breakthrough when the Kremlin allowed a group of Japanese to visit their relatives' graves on two of the islands without first obtaining visas. But the Japanese are not overly impressed...
...another problem: a rise in tension between Israel and Syria over the Israeli downing of two Syrian MiG fighter planes a month ago. Though some Israeli officials described the matter as a "crisis," to the U.S. Government the danger appeared to have subsided by the time the Israeli public got wind of the impasse. The trouble began Nov. 19 when Israeli jet pilots, accompanying a pair of reconnaissance planes making a routine sweep over Lebanon, shot down the Soviet-made MiG-23s in Syrian airspace. The Israeli pilots said later that they had thought the MiGs were heading directly toward...
...charge and that they are working round the clock to finish the main strip by this fall. Washington fears that the field will be used for a shipment of Czechoslovak-made L-39 fighters that may be en route from Eastern Europe, or by a squadron of Soviet MiG-23s reportedly stationed in Cuba, but the Sandinistas deny it. All the U.S. and Nicaragua seem to agree on is that, at some 4,400 yds., Punta Huete will have the longest runway in Central America...
That possibility drew attention to a little-known aspect of American military training. The U.S. has managed to assemble a minisquadron of between four and 15 Floggers, as well as at least a dozen of the more easily obtainable MiG-21s. All of the MiG-23s, which the Soviets began producing in 1973, were purchased from Egypt. Cairo had acquired an extensive Soviet-built arsenal, including the Floggers, from 1955 to 1974, when Egypt was one of Moscow's most valued client-states...