Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are lumps in all that gravy.Pilots descending toward Tempelhof airfield at night have been deliberately and dangerously blinded by East German spotlights. Their navigational aids, essential in a political corridor only 20 miles wide, have been knocked out by tinsel strewn from Russian planes. Worst of all, MIG fighters have 3 buzzed the commercial planes or escorted them wing tip to wing tip in an effort to un nerve pilots. "Crisis," sighs one Pan Am executive, "is a way of life...
...placed his armed forces on full alert. Havana University was drained as students were called to arms in militia units. Night after night, radar antennas scanned the sea and sky for any suspicious movement, while patrol boats and shore patrols filled in the radar gaps. So busy were MIG fighters that one jet narrowly missed ramming into a Cuban airliner over eastern Oriente province. Castro's internal radio even issued a call for volunteer blood donors in preparation for "any emergency." Meantime, Cuba's powerful, 100,000-watt propaganda radio blared defiance to the world: "The Cuban people...
...technicians in 1962. U.S. intelligence is convinced that the Russians have indeed removed all their nuclear ballistic missiles. But the Russians have left behind an impressive array of "defensive" hardware: battalions of tanks, hundreds of mobile nonnuclear FROGs (free-rocket-overground) with a 30-mile range, about 60 supersonic MIG-21 jet fighters and more than 100 antiaircraft SAM rockets. Ready to step in at the 25 SAM sites around the island are Cuban crews, who have had more than a year of training under Soviet instructors. There is some evidence that the Russians are pulling out their most sophisticated...
...first reports came from Cuban exiles in Miami and New York. They were given weight by friendly diplomatic sources in Havana. They added up to a grim warning: Cuban pilots in MIG-21 jetfighters, capable of speeds up to Mach 2.2 and bristling with Soviet infrared homing rockets, were plotting to shoot down President Johnson as he flew to Miami for a Democratic fund-raising dinner on Feb. 27. If they failed in that, the Cubans would try to flash in and ram the President's plane kamikaze-style...
Then the intruding MIG scoots back to safety...