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...nations. "We would do anything to block the Smith settlement here," said Tanzania's U.N. Ambassador Salim A. Salim, "because otherwise it would have to be blocked militarily on the scene." British intelligence analysts say that two Cuban regiments, as well as 200 Soviet tanks and 20 crated MiG-21 fighters, are now positioned in Mozambique, Mugabe's main base of operations. Nkomo last week denied that he had invited Cuban advisers to join his Zambian-based guerrillas. But his strong supporter, Zambia's moderately pro-Western President Kenneth Kaunda, has threatened that he might request Soviet...
...Ethiopians and 7,000 Cubans, simply went over the mountains. Light armor -tanks or armored personnel carriers -was airlifted behind the lines of the surprised Somalis by Soviet heavy Mi-6 or Mi-8 helicopters based at Dire Dawa. The Somalis had been pinned down by repeated MiG-17 and MiG-21 air strikes flown by both Ethiopian and Cuban pilots. Caught between the airlifted forces and ground units moving through the pass behind Soviet T-55 tanks, Somali units were cut off and chopped up. Jijiga itself, whose 2,000 inhabitants had begun a painful rebuilding following heavy battles...
...Three. There is Soviet equipment in Egypt-four MiG-25s, and a Soviet manned station for electronic warfare. You should either sell these to us or take them back to the Soviet Union...
...foreign fighter in the air today, including the Soviet Union's MiG-25 Foxbat, is deadlier than the twin-engine, $16 million F-15 that the Carter Administration wants to sell to Israel and Saudi Arabia. "It's beautiful," says Brigadier General John T. Chain Jr., who has been flying F-15s since they became operational three years ago. "It's the-first fighter aircraft that has all the capabilities a pilot wants: high thrust, tight turning, great visibility and every switch in the right place in a cockpit designed for the pilot...
...military airfield at Dire Dawa, dozens of green-and-brown-camouflaged MiG-17s and 21s thunder off into the sky each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been...