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...when Israeli jet pilots, accompanying a pair of reconnaissance planes making a routine sweep over Lebanon, shot down the Soviet-made MiG-23s in Syrian airspace. The Israeli pilots said later that they had thought the MiGs were heading directly toward them. The Syrians immediately began to bring SA-2 missile batteries into positions along their border with Lebanon. Even more ominous, they transported SA-6 and SA-8 mobile missile batteries into Lebanon to positions along the Damascus-Beirut Highway and around Baalbek. The Israelis, concerned that the Syrian reinforcements would make Israeli reconnaissance flights exceedingly dangerous, asked...
After reportedly receiving from Murphy vague Israeli assurances that such air clashes would be avoided in the future, Assad withdrew the mobile missile batteries from Lebanon. That gesture eased tensions somewhat, but Assad left the SA-2s in place within Syria along the Lebanese border, perpetuating Israeli fears that the reconnaissance flights would still be threatened...
...extinction next year unless they receive more § arms. According to Washington, the Sandinistas are assembling up to a dozen Soviet-made Mi-24 Hind helicopters capable of flying some 200 m.p.h. and carrying air-to-surface missiles. To counter the lethal gunships, the rebels would need Redeye or SA-7 antiaircraft missiles. A member of the intelligence community points out that the FDN already has run out of ammunition for its grenade launchers, M-60 machine guns and antitank weapons, and must rely almost entirely on hand-held weapons. The possibility that the contras might collapse has begun...
Among the biggest stockpilers of MIC in Europe is France. In the southern countryside of Béziers, La Littorale, SA, a Union Carbide affiliate, stores some 20 tons of the chemical, which it imports from the U.S. because the French government prohibits the manufacture of MIC. La Littorale officials proudly point to the facility's extensive security features. The air in the plant is automatically monitored, and should any gas escape from a drum an alarm would call in a crack emergency team. If large enough, the leak would also trigger a water system to deluge and wash...
...quorum. To cobble the necessary numbers, Arafat aides persuaded the deputy speaker to appoint several dozen loyalists temporarily to vacant seats. On the second day the delegates voted to dismiss Khaled Fahoum, the council speaker and an Assad ally, and replace him with Sheik Abdul Hamid al Sa'eh of Jordan...