Word: mig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Live broadcast, as well as the private bust-out that followed, was a mandatory lap on the fast track. Some cruised through; others crashed. No one was surprised when Aykroyd glanced down at the anonymous girlfriend passed out on the floor and coolly observed, "If you can't handle MiGs, don't fly in MiG alley...
...writers saw themselves as comedic fifth columnists at NBC. The network executives, of course, mostly thought the players were crazy--until they caught on big. Hill and Weingrad are deft at dealing with all the infighting, as well as describing what the creative action was like inside MiG alley. They also benefit from a cast of characters that comes predrawn in broad outlines, like so many figures in a crazy coloring book. But the shading added by the authors is careful and, in the case of players elbowed out of the spotlight, like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris, compassionate. Some...
Gaddafi branded the Navy exercise "aggressive provocation," which seemed roughly accurate. Ordering his armed forces on "total alert," he sent aircraft to fly over the gulf "to defend Libya's territorial waters." On Friday four Libyan MiG fighters headed toward the U.S. carriers, which were then about 300 miles offshore and well north of the point that Gaddafi calls "the line of death" and has staked out as his sea boundary (midway between the 32nd and 33rd parallels, 130 miles from the Libyan coast). When Navy jets were directed toward the Libyan aircraft, the Libyan pilots quickly turned back...
...refugee camps are more difficult to hide and defend. This fall the Ethiopians struck at nine camps, killing 66 civilians. At Solomuna camp, home to 7,000 Eritreans, including 500 children in an orphanage, Ethiopian MiGs dropped 20 bombs in one day last September. Nine people were killed, including six children, and 23 were wounded. Solomuna's residents now rise before dawn and climb into narrow ravines, where they spend the day huddled under rock overhangs. The sound of a distant MiG one morning instantly silenced several hundred chattering children, as all peered skyward. Ghiday Haile, 33, sat under...
...eight-member U.S. Government team arrived in Tel Aviv to question Israeli officials suspected of involvement in the affair. At the same time, the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres wrestled with another problem: a rise in tension between Israel and Syria over the Israeli downing of two Syrian MiG fighter planes a month ago. Though some Israeli officials described the matter as a "crisis," to the U.S. Government the danger appeared to have subsided by the time the Israeli public got wind of the impasse. The trouble began Nov. 19 when Israeli jet pilots, accompanying a pair of reconnaissance...