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Tanks and mechanized infantry units of two divisions of the First Egyptian Army, normally assigned to defend the regime in Cairo, pummeled the three brigades that Gaddafi managed to throw into battle. Meanwhile nearly a dozen Egyptian commando and paratrooper battalions dropped behind Libyan lines, and three squadrons of MiG fighter jets bombed and strafed Libyan cities and military bases. The fierce armor and air battles raged for at least three days...
...Nationalist China, the defection to Taiwan last week of Communist Squadron Commander Fan Yuan-yen in his MiG-19 was the best piece of news since the death of Mao Tse-tung nearly a year ago. Radio stations played stirring martial music between special news flashes, and people set off firecrackers in the streets in celebration...
...main considerations is the vast Soviet air defense network, largest in the world. Some 6,000 radar installations stretch from Murmansk to Vladivostok for early detection of a U.S. attack. The Soviet force of 5,000 interceptor aircraft includes 200 formidable MiG-25s, known as Foxbats, which have a top speed of 1,800 m.p.h. and a maximum altitude of close to 80,000 ft. In addition, the Soviets have about 12,000 surface-to-air missiles-low-level SA-3s and SA-6s and high-level SA-2s and SA-5s-at more than 1,000 sites...
Meanwhile, on the Arab side, the Syrians have added new squadrons of advanced Russian-made MiG-23 fighters, and even the Egyptians?despite the loss of Soviet supplies since Cairo-Moscow relations cooled?have managed to get quantities of the highly mobile SA-7 Strela, one of the world's most effective antiaircraft missiles...
...south, their garrisons in the bush are isolated, and roads linking them are constantly harassed by UNITA forces. The Luanda government has launched an all-out assault in southern Angola in an effort to finish off the resistance. So far its main achievement has been to terrorize innocent civilians. MiG fighter-bombers have napalmed entire villages near Angola's border with Namibia (South West Africa); herds of cattle have been slaughtered, not only to feed the attacking forces but to punish the pro-UNlTA tribesmen...