Word: mig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serraj, 31, gained the upper hand in the army, placed Syria's 25,000 troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good...
...desk before 9, to head off the seemingly inexhaustible dangers of world crisis. To the White House came the top diplomats, the military and intelligence chiefs, all bringing bits and pieces of a jigsaw puzzle of Soviet tanks churning westward through the bloody snows of satelliteland, of MIG-17s swooping southward past Mount Ararat to take up menacing new forward bases in Syria...
...midweek Israeli intelligence (usually quite good) reported that 24 Russian-manned MIG-17s, accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and ground equipment, had landed in Syria. This report fitted in with the recent visit to Russia of Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose government and army are more thickly infested with Communists than any other Arab state. His was no casual visit. His wife, his daughter, his Foreign Minister and staff. Minister of Defense. Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Propaganda and the manager of the Central Bank of Syria had flown to the Crimea with an escort of Soviet...
...they often do it with a bang. Author Ben Hecht and Cinemactor Bob Hope were partners in MGM's The Iron Petticoat, a Ninotchka-type farce co-starring Hope and Katharine Hepburn. The script by Hecht tells of a Russian aviatrix who flees the Soviet Union in a MIG and is piloted about Europe by a U.S. Air Force officer. Now that The Iron Petticoat is ready to be publicized, Scripter Hecht last week washed his hands of the whole project in a paid ad ($275) on the back page of the Hollywood Reporter. It read...
Explaining his government's decision, St. Laurent pointed out that Egypt, with airfields only ten minutes' flying time from Tel Aviv, has bought some 200 MIG-15 jet fighters and 40 to 50 Ilyushin jet bombers from the Soviet Union. Even with her new Canadian-built Sabres and French Mysteres, Israel will still be numerically outclassed by the Egyptian Air Force, hopes to equip a third squadron with 24 additional top-flight jet interceptors wherever she can buy them...