Word: soviet-built
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...push Saigon's men back into provincial capitals and district towns. Saigon's response was to take to the air with more than 100 sorties daily against Communist antiaircraft positions and supply convoys. In one bombing attack northwest of Kontum City, Saigon claimed that it destroyed 203 Soviet-built Molotova trucks carrying ammunition, food and fuel for Communist soldiers...
...Soviet-built bazookas. One round plowed into an airport catering building. A second ripped a hole in a Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner about to load passengers for Zagreb. No one was seriously injured, and the terrorists, believed to be Palestinians, escaped...
...have provided the Palestinians with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed or wounded while 58 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week accused Lebanon of letting more Palestinians enter the country from Syria armed with Soviet-built antitank and antiaircraft missiles...
SYRIA. Twenty minutes' flight time from Damascus airport, Colonel Ralph Albertazzie, the pilot of Nixon's Spirit of 76, spotted four Soviet-built Syrian MlGs coming up fast. He immediately took evasive action, putting the giant jet through a series of sharp turns and steep banks while radioing the Damascus control tower for help. Assured that the fighters were on a friendly- though unannounced- escort mission, Colonel Albertazzie landed the President in Syria for his meetings with the leaders of a nation that has been bitterly anti-American as well as anti-Israeli...
...underground Kurdish army re-emerged from a four-year furlough. Supply lines to several Iraqi army garrisons were cut, and other military units were surrounded. Last week the Kurds began shooting at helicopters resupplying the food-short garrisons. According to the Kurdish radio, the Iraqis responded by bringing their Soviet-built bombers into action for the first time, laying waste to eleven Kurdish villages...