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...ranking officer, they knew "every tree and house" along their eventual attack route. Despite the scope of the rehearsals, the U.S. says that it did not detect the operation, either by satellite or other means. Originally, the plan called for the bombing to be carried out by F-4 Phantom jets. However, the first batches of 75 light, agile F-16 fighters, ordered from the U.S. in August 1977, had arrived in Israel. The Israeli Air Force had the innovative notion of making a bomber out of a fighter designed for jet-age dogfights. Tests showed that...
...message that crackled across the air waves, and clattered over chancellery teletypes in a score of capitals, was charged with menace. Israeli Phantom fighter-bombers, firing air-to-air missiles, had just brought down a Syrian helicopter as it took off from an airbase near Riyaq in east central Lebanon. Later in the day, a second Israeli air attack downed another Syrian helicopter, killing all four crewmen aboard. Before wheeling back to Israel, according to Lebanese claims that were strongly denied by Jerusalem, the Israeli jets bombed and strafed Syrian positions above the city of Zahle, where Syrian peace-keeping...
Bethlehem, for instance, paid earnings of $ 1.60 a share last year (a total of $69.8 million) on its phantom profits...
...flown B-52 support missions in his Phantom Interceptor off the carrier Bonhomme Richard; Ray--who is a doctor, a healer who sometimes cuts off the life support; Ray--who has seen too much useless death and too much useless life; Ray--who in his third decade is divorced and remarried to a woman who is perfect, except he hates her, except he loves another woman named Sister, except she is murdered on the verge of rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful...
...scandal. The Knesset voted to lift the parliamentary immunity of Cabinet Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira, head of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, so that he could face criminal indictment. Abuhatzeira had been under investigation for months as an alleged recipient of bribes in return for having funneled government funds to phantom religious institutions...