Word: mystã
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...dawn one morning last week, war came to the dusty Pakistan village of Dhankeal, near Lahore. Myst??re jets of the Indian air force slammed rockets into a train at the station, killing three passengers and wounding eleven. Wakened by the explosions, a young peasant named Zakaullah clambered to the roof of his mud hut. "I saw planes in the sky," he said. "And suddenly they started throwing things with fire coming from them. Then one plane started to fall. It came down with a big noise...
Near by bearded Mohammed Sharif was leaving the village mosque after morning prayer when he looked up and saw the French-built Myst??res in a dogfight with U.S.-made F-86 jets of the Pakistan air force. With peasant wisdom Sharif decided, "The Indians must be losing in Kashmir. Now they are trying to bother us down here." He urged the young men of the village to arm themselves with clubs and search through the cane and cornfields for downed Indian pilots...
...much the same story?Indian quantity and Pakistan quality. Indian pilots are flying a variety of fighters, from French Myst??res and British Vampires to Russian MIG-21s and Indian-built Gnats. The Pakistanis have U.S. supersonic jets, which seem to have made a spectacular number of kills?Pakistani Air Vice Marshal Nur Khan claims that 108 Indian planes have been shot down. If true, that amounts to a fifth of the Indian air force...
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