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Nonbeligerent Atmosphere Complicating the situation is the vast Soviet presence that has been established in Egypt, not to mention the rest of the Middle East. There are between 12,000 and 15,000 Russians in Egypt? from economists and engineers to missile technicians and MIG pilots? and any successor to Nasser will have to keep them in mind when he deals with Israel. Sovietologists do not believe that Russia wants all-out war with Israel, but they point out that "controlled
...signal came not a moment too soon. Only the day before, Israeli jets near the Suez Canal shot down four Egyptian air force MIG-21s, killing one of the pilots. Though all parties prudently refused to admit it, TIME learned that some Soviet flyers were involved in the incident, the first in which Soviet-piloted MIGs have been shot down-an event fraught with awesome consequences and feared by the U.S. and Israel since the Red air force began to fly missions in Egypt nearly four months...
...early this year in which bombs killed 88 noncombatant factory workers at a town called Abu Zabal and 38 schoolchildren at Bahr Al-Bakar. In January, Nasser made a quick and secret trip to the Soviet Union to seek additional military equipment. The Soviet response was to provide additional MIG-21s-flown by Soviet pilots-and SA3 missiles operated by Russian crews. The Soviet intervention changed the Middle East. It had become a point of possible confrontation between superpowers. The White House let it be known that the Middle East, not Viet Nam, was America's major foreign policy...
...everything from new knapsacks to improved, longer-range SA-2 missiles, similar to the ones emplaced in Egypt. Cuba now has 24 SA-2 sites, each with six missiles. In addition, Moscow has upgraded Fidel Castro's air force by supplying a 25-plane squadron of F model MIG-21s, which boast greater speed, longer range and a bigger payload capacity than the D models previously supplied to Cuba...
...abbreviations) 12,000 of both were already on the loose. This summer's third edition will list more than 80,000. Nor is English the only language to be acronymized. The Library of Congress publishes a glossary of 23,600 Russian acronyms and abbreviations, ranging from the familiar MIG plane (designed in part by Mikhail losifovich Gurevich) to AGITPROP (for Agitation and Propaganda Department...