Word: mig
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Despite three pilot-training tours in the Soviet Union, Mubarak is outspokenly anti-Communist and contemptuous of the Soviet military equipment on which Egypt relied until 1973. (He once told Sadat that the Egyptian air force would not accept MiG-23 fighters, "even if the Russians give them to us free.") He shares Sadat's instinctive, pro-Western orientation. Mubarak's wife of 21 years, Suzanne, is of both British and Egyptian descent; she is a social sciences graduate of the American University of Cairo. Mubarak's two sons, Alaa, 20, and Gamal, 17, are American University...
...LAST FIVE YEARS, THE cinematic treatment of war has been anything but regular. In Coming Home war was a sociological case study. Michael Cimino attempted in The Deerhunter to create a charged-up folk tale complete with Robert DeNiro as an MIG-toting ubermensch. And in Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola made war something mythic; something so big and so surreal that one wondered who was playing The Ride of the Valkyries after all. But in Australian director Peter Weir's Gallipoli, there is something of a retrenchment, at least intellectually. In the movie, war does not get treated...
Ugly plumes of black smoke hung over the huge Iranian oil refinery in Abadan last week. Just two miles away, Iraqi artillery units kept firing shells into the besieged port at the head of the Persian Gulf. Iraqi MiG-23s swooped overhead in bombing raids, drawing intense antiaircraft fire. One MiG-23, spewing smoke, crashed near Basra, inside Iraq. Huddled behind sandbags or in the ravaged interiors of buildings, the Iranians are conducting an incessant artillery duel with the enemy. Although Iraq held a long strip of Iranian territory (see map), the situation was different toward the north, where Iranian...
...conjecture. After all, two score Libyan planes had entered the area and left peacefully before the clash, and at least eight more appeared later. The pilot who fired the Atoll missile must surely have known that he was facing superior American aircraft; in any case, at least two Libyan MiG-23s, much more advanced aircraft than the Su-22s, were in the area of the dogfight and did not intervene. Did Tripoli order the attack or did the pilot panic? Did he make a mistake of bravado or simply trigger the Atoll by accident? Or did he perhaps believe that...
...cease-fire was holding-barely-although there was a hot debate over what it entailed. After a Syrian MiG was shot down by Israeli planes over Lebanon, for example, the question arose whether Israel had the right, under the agreement, to continue its reconnaissance flights over the country. The Palestine Liberation Organization said no; the Israelis said yes, and the U.S. backed them...