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...Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets, the first such encounter in five months, a Syrian MiG was destroyed...
...past six months, the U.S.S.R. has also significantly beefed up the firepower it has aimed at Japan from the Soviet mainland. The Kremlin has replaced its MiG-21s with the more advanced MiG-23 combat fighters and has moved a battery of SS-20 mobile missiles with multiple warheads, plus at least ten supersonic Backfire bombers armed with antiship missiles, from Europe to bases near Vladivostok, directly across the Sea of Japan from Hokkaido...
...groups of Libyan soldiers in fatigues or civilian technicians wearing Castro-style caps barter for elaborately decorated Chadian daggers and other trinkets. Virtually the only buildings in town that are being reconstructed are the Libyan embassy and bank. No one is allowed to approach the airport, where Soviet-built MiG-23 and MiG-25 jet fighters are based, or the closely guarded garrison, where up to 7,500 combat troops, supported by Soviet T-54 tanks, are bivouacked. Diplomats say that Libya is providing funds for Chad government salaries and essential services...
...situated. Each base accommodates a tank division of about 10,000 troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other vehicles. These armored combat forces also include communications and logistical units and are backed up by an air force that has more than 200 MiG-21s, MiG-23s and An8 and An-12 transport planes...
...When the patrons went outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused by an Iraqi MiG breaking the sound barrier...