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...memories of the 1960 presidential election, when the late Mayor Richard Daley was accused of tinkering with the Chicago vote to ensure John Kennedy's victory. The euphemism then, and now, was "waiting for the Riverside counties to come in"; in other words, waiting to determine how many phantom voters will have to be fished out of the Chicago River to secure a Democratic victory...
Speculation that the Iranians were on the verge of opening a second front increased Wednesday when two Iranian F-4 Phantom jets staged a dawn air attack on Baghdad. One Iranian plane was shot down and the other dropped its bombs on the wrong target, hitting a hotel instead of the conference center where a meeting of nonaligned nations is scheduled to be held in September, against the strident objections of the Iranian government...
...international airport. Some 20 to 30 miles to the east, Israeli air force planes bombed Syrian and Palestinian positions at Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley, as well as Syrian armored positions in the center of the valley. On Saturday, Israel lost its second warplane of the conflict, when a Phantom F-4 jet was hit by a Syrian SA-8 missile over Bekaa. It was the first time that the antiaircraft missile had been used in the Lebanon fighting. The Israelis immediately launched heavy raids against other suspected Syrian missile positions...
...continue denying Argentine ships and aircraft access to a 200-mile zone around the Falklands. The exclusionary zone may be maintained at least until the end of August, when British military engineers expect to complete expansion of the runway at Port Stanley for use by a squadron of Phantom jet fighters and Nimrod reconnaissance planes. Britain intends to establish a permanent garrison of some 2,500 troops in the Falklands, as well as a naval force that will include two submarines and three frigates. As a Thatcher aide put it, "We shall be keeping our guard up for some considerable...
...attacks came by air, land and sea. Relentlessly, day after day, Israeli forces rained destruction on Lebanon in their determined drive to crush the Palestine Liberation Organization and oust Syrian forces from the country. Waves of Israeli F-16s and F-4 Phantom jets screamed in over Palestinian-and Muslim-controlled West Beirut, dropping bombs. Israeli warships bombarded the city's coastline all the way from the airport area south of the capital to Beirut's Manara district, and the Avenue de Paris, near the sea, where many embassies and foreigners' residences are situated. From trenches, bunkers...