Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown said emphatically, "and it shouldn't be." But, the Pentagon said, "it is impossible to avoid all damage to civilian areas, especially when the North Vietnamese deliberately emplace" military targets in populated areas. U.S. planes sometimes have to jettison bombs willy-nilly in order to engage attacking MIG fighters. Moreover, some of Hanoi's own SAMs (surface-to-air missiles) have fallen back into populated areas...
When Indonesia's Communists attempted a coup in September of 1965, General Omar Dani was commander of his country's MIG-equipped air force. As a Communist sympathizer, he allowed Halim Airbase near Djakarta to be used as headquarters and staging area for the plot; in turn, he was promised that he would eventually become chief of state. But the plot was smashed by the Indonesian army, and Dani, along with Foreign Minister Subandrio and other top government officials, was put in jail on charges of treason. Subandrio was tried by a military court and sentenced to death...
What would happen if the MIGs suddenly swarmed aloft in numbers and became more aggressive? "We would simply have to do more of what we are doing now," shrugged one Air Force spokesman in Saigon. "We are not up there chasing MIGs. We are trying to put bombs on targets." So far, those targets have not included MIG airfields themselves, since Washington does not yet consider them worth the risk of enlarging the war. But if air opposition reached the point where U.S. planes were constantly forced to jettison their bombloads in order to defend themselves before reaching their targets...
Caught in Between. Trying to put Israel on the defensive again, Egypt sent two MIG-19s scrambling across its eastern border with Israel. In a bitter dogfight with two Israeli French-built Mirages-the first such fight in five years-the Egyptians lost at least one of the planes, as proved by Israeli photographs, and possibly both. Twenty-four hours later in Cairo, the Arab League's Defense Council called an urgent meeting for this week to discuss the growing tensions. Girding for more trouble, Israel planted mines along its bristling border with Jordan, swept the bleak desert with...
...snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...