Word: scud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...downed planes with fast MIG-21s but given the Syrians 45 MIG-23 fighter-bombers, the Russian equivalents of the vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well within Syria; for battlefield support, Moscow has sent 100 Frog missiles, which have a range of about 45 miles...
...were ominous intelligence reports that the Soviets were resupplying the Egyptian Second Army, which is sitting in Sinai north of the Israeli-encircled Third. There were also reports, which Washington doubled, that the Soviets were shipping nuclear warheads into the area to mate them to the 200-mile-range "Scud" ground-to-ground missiles already in Egypt...
...Scud, a ground-to-ground guided missile with an 80-mile range. It is this missile-and not the Egyptian-built Al Kahir and Al Zafir rockets mentioned by Sadat in his speech last week-that poses a threat to the Israelis...
...father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White Waves on Sand, Maine, the arches and pylons of Brooklyn Bridge, the scud and sough of an Atlantic sou'wester-was obdurate and irreducible for Marin, and had always to be returned to, loved, and above all, declared...