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Word: operativeâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...systems and radar screens that operate around the clock. All aircraft?including Israeli military planes?are barred from flying over the areas where the nuclear plants are located. During the Six-Day War, in fact, an Israeli Mirage III?either out of control or with its communications gear in operative???inadvertently flew over Dimona. Israeli defenders shot it down with a ground-to-air missile. In 1973 a Libyan airliner flying from Benghazi to Cairo lost its way because of a navigational error and flew toward a forbidden area. Israeli fighters tried to turn it back. Then, for security reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Violent Week: The Politics of Death | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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