Word: sam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon seemed to have one advantage in the tumultuous tapes controversy. Surprisingly, he had been able, only hours before the appeals-court order became effective, to persuade two of the Senate's most prestigious Watergate investigators, Senate Select Committee Chairman Sam Ervin and the committee's Republican vice chairman, Howard Baker, to go along with his scheme. But both men insisted that their concurrence was narrowly based on the committee's interest in getting any evidence at all of what the tapes contain and was meant to be totally unrelated to the court struggle...
...outcome was in doubt, though the tide of battle seemed to be turning slowly in favor of the Israelis. While fighting continued in the Sinai, Israel managed to put a force of 15,000 men and 350 tanks across the Suez Canal, where it smashed SAM sites and artillery positions along the western bank and fought its way 15 miles into Egypt in the direction of Cairo about 60 miles away. Unless the Egyptians could check the Israeli advance in the west, the action there was bound to lead to the erosion of the Egyptian position in the Sinai over...
...over this city of mosques and markets, an Israeli jet, easily visible to the eye, explodes in a tiny flash and a puff of whitish smoke. Seconds later, a dull thump is heard as it crashes to the ground. The fighter plane was the victim of a "Soviet SAM," as Damascenes call their wonder weapon. The successes of the Soviet missiles are a major reason why the almost 900,000 citizens of Damascus seem relatively relaxed and unworried, even though the war is only 23 miles away...
Code-named Gainful by NATO officials, the SAM6 is a slim (6-in. diameter), 19-ft.-long solid-fuel rocket mounted in a group of three on a tracked vehicle. Thus, unlike the older SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles, which require a permanent base, the new SAM can be moved along with armored forces, providing them with an umbrella of protection that extends from treetop level to an altitude of 35,000 ft. Furthermore, while the Israelis (with U.S. equipment and advice) know how to evade or neutralize the SAM-2 and SAM-3, they so far have no effective...
Neither Israel nor the U.S. has anything comparable to the SAM-6. The U.S. radar-guided Hawk missile, used by the Israelis, is effective against low-flying aircraft but vulnerable to jamming...