Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chou warned that if the U.S. were to expand the war in Viet Nam, Red China "would absolutely not stand by idly." As he spoke, the New York Times reported that Red China might have succeeded in manufacturing its first copies of Russian-designed, supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters. And naturally the Premier boasted of Red China's entry into the world's nuclear club...
Arms Deal. To prove the government's continued dedication to neutralism, Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan stood up in Parliament last week to announce details of a new $210 million arms deal with Moscow for three squadrons of MIG-21 supersonic jet fighters, plus an assortment of other military hardware and help in building a complete MIG assembly plant. And Shastri himself was preparing to leave the Indian subcontinent for the first time in his life, to fly to Cairo for next week's meeting of the nonaligned bloc in which Nehru had been such a towering figure...
...latest attempted coup to come off the Iraqi assembly line. It was scheduled for noon last Sept. 4 as Aref and most of his Cabinet boarded a Viscount turboprop en route to the Arab summit at Alexandria. The Viscount was to be escorted by a squadron of six MIG fighters of the Iraqi air force-and all six pilots were members of a Baathist cell, who had agreed to blast the presidential plane to bits as it took...
...week, with the reluctant blessing of the Federal Aviation Agency, 100 daredevils converged on a patch of desert outside Reno to resume the National Championship Air Races, delicately described by the promoter as "the biggest, safest event in U.S. aviation history." He should have added: "Since the dogfights over MIG Alley...
...disclosed that in Fukien province alone 150,000 Chinese militiamen were limbering up with grenade-tossing exercises, target practice and river-crossing drills-and produced carefully posed pictures to prove it. But in terms of actual military support to North Viet Nam, Peking provided only 15 to 20 obsolescent MIG-15 and MIG-17 jet fighters, which would prove no match for the supersonic F-102 Delta Daggers now in South Viet Nam. And even "Hanoi Hannah," the syrupy-voiced English-speaking propagandist of North Viet Nam Radio, was mild-toned. Speaking of U.S. Navy Pilot Everett Alvarez...