Word: mig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking's overwhelming numerical advantage. They like to point out that China's People's Liberation Army has more than 1 million men tied down on the Sino-Soviet border, while other P.L.A. troops are needed to maintain internal security. Hanoi ridicules China's aging MiG-17 and MiG-19 fighters as "toys" that the Vietnamese can easily shoot down. Hoang Tung, editor of the Vietnamese Communist Party daily Nhan Dan (The People), told Labbé: "We have a colossal army that has received ultra-modern arms from the U.S.S.R. We are strong and stubborn...
...first attack came without warning. A pair of Cuban MiG-21 fighters swooped down on the 103-ft. patrol vessel Flamingo, one of the largest ships in the Bahama defense force fleet, as it was towing two Cuban fishing boats that had been seized for poaching stone crab and conch near the tiny, uninhabited Bahamian island of Santo Domingo Cay. The two jets raked the lightly armed Flamingo with 23-mm cannons, then returned 45 minutes later and sank the vessel with two rocket salvos. As the Bahamian sailors bobbed helplessly in the water, the MiGs roared...
...search for the missing Flamingo crewmen continued, the U.S. Coast Guard kept the Cuban border guard informed of U.S. participants, including Coast Guard Helicopter CG1438. The crew of 1438 was startled when two Cuban MiGs roared in on the helicopter and made three dangerously close passes. The first two came within 100 yds. of the U.S. craft. On the third pass a MiG zoomed a mere 50 ft. under the helicopter, which was only 300 ft. above the water. The MiG pilot then fired his afterburner, causing the chopper to shake and its crew to tremble. From Key West Naval...
...mopping-up that followed, MiG 21s swooped low over the city, and helicopter gunships hovered over the rooftops to prevent new crowds from gathering. Police cars with mounted loudspeakers toured commercial areas urging stores to reopen. Behind them along the same routes came other, private vehicles; their drivers and passengers shook their heads as a signal to the shopkeepers to ignore the appeals. Still, by week's end an estimated 85% of Kabul's shops had reopened, most government workers were reluctantly back at their jobs, and the city warily came back to life...
...With MiG-21s buzzing low overhead, and the sound of sporadic gunfire echoing across scattered parts of the city, Kabul was described by foreign residents as being "in the grip of crisis." From the shopping streets of the Shari-i-Nao district to the alleyways of the Shorbazaar in the Old Quarter, thousands of shopkeepers had first closed their doors on Thursday to dramatize their resentment against the Soviet invaders. Shouting anti-Soviet epithets and antigovernment jeers, the merchants repeatedly defied attempts by Afghan police to force them to reopen their shops. When thousands of other citizens poured into...