Word: mig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similar foul-ups afflict much of the Cuban economy. The Communist bloc barters oil. guns, MIG jets, some machinery and foodstuffs for sugar, plus other Cuban produce such as tuna. But the Reds do not, and apparently cannot, conduct the $1 billion two-way trade in the range of goods that Cuba once enjoyed with...
...clockwork, as in any Red capital on any Red anniversary. There stood Gagarin, the pocket-sized Soviet hero, on the reviewing stand with Castro, who towers over him. There, below, were the cheering masses, the enormous pictures of Lenin and Khrushchev. The expected display of half a dozen Soviet MIG-17 jets thundered overhead on schedule. There was even a seven-hour gymkhana in Civic Square by 70,000 massed "athletes...
...statement: "The recent landing in Cuba was in fact a landing mainly of supplies and support for our patriots who have been fighting in Cuba for months. Regretfully, we admit tragic losses among a small holding force. The force fought Soviet tanks and artillery, while being attacked by Russian MIG aircraft-a gallantry which allowed a major portion of our party to reach the Escambray Mountains...
...Fish Is Red. The operation started with a surprise attack by B-26 light bombers on Cuban airports where Russian MIG-15s were reportedly being uncrated and assembled. In the best cloak and dagger tradition, to lend credence to a cover story that the bombings were by pilots defecting from Castro's air force, a few .30-cal. bullets were fired into an old Cuban B26. A pilot took off in the crate and landed it at Miami with an engine needlessly feathered and a cock-and-bull story that he had attacked the airfields. A reporter noted that...
...supposed to turn and run. The U.S. planners, despite counsel that June-when the sugar harvest is in and unemployment is high-would be a better month to count on unrest, decided to invade sooner, on the ground that it would be harder once some 200 Cubans returned from MIG training in Communist Czechoslovakia...