Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reluctant to buy weapons abroad, and refused to let private Indian firms bid on defense contracts. Menon's boasts of Indian creativity in arms development have been revealed as shoddy deceptions. A prototype of an Indian jet fighter plane proved unable to break the sound barrier. Even the MIG-21 planes that the Soviet Union has promised to deliver in December are of questionable value, since jet fighters are useless without an intricate ground-support system, which India is in no position...
...noise of battle was shrillest in Peking itself, and the Chinese mood was not improved by a new $15 million Russian contract with New Delhi for oil-drilling equipment, or Moscow's promise to deliver MIG fighters to embattled India. In an outburst at "modern revisionism." meaning the Khrushchev line, Peking's People's Daily vilified the Kremlin's Cuban policy as "sinister and venomous, disgraceful." and seeking "to befuddle the Cuban people and mentally disarm them." The paper urged a "headon" confrontation with the U.S. instead of a "barter" of Communist principles. Next...
...Cuba the only issue that inflamed the Sino-Soviet rivalry. Nehru reported that Moscow, after weeks of stalling, finally agreed to sell India MIG jet fighters, which might be used against invading Red Chinese troops. A Pravda editorial on Peking's border war with India carefully refused to take sides: if anything, Pravda leaned slightly toward India. "Bellicosity," tut-tutted the sweet voice of Moscow, is "foreign to the very spirit of a socialist state...
...Nehru, that if his Red Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been sent to take delivery on long-promised MIG-21 jet fighters. In the showdown, Russia stayed loyal to its alliance with Red China, leaving India to shift for itself...
Just so no one would misunderstand, Castro made it clear that all the other Soviet-bloc weapons already delivered-the MIG jets, heavy artillery and tanks -belonged to Cuba alone. In fact, said Castro, "several months ago the Soviet Union decided to cancel the whole arms debt of our country." Was Cuba weakened by Khrushchev's retreat? Was Castro diminished? "Don't think that the retirement of these strategic arms disarms us. All the other arms stay in this country. Fatherland or death! We will conquer...