Word: swathed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each with six missile launchers, had been moved to positions ranging from eleven miles to 35 miles west of the canal (see map). Just beyond the SA-2s, and outside the 20-mile swath west of Suez, at least two SA3 batteries were emplaced. According to Bar-Lev -and Washington intelligence sources agree-both batteries are close enough to protect some of the more exposed SA-2s and restrict Israeli jets. The SA-3s are manned only by Russian crews. But even though Egyptians crew the SA-2s, Bar-Lev claimed that "in every battery we have a few Russian...
...from Saigon, to relax with his wife, his six children and his swimming pool. Next morning at 7:30, he boarded a waiting helicopter with all the aplomb of a commuter headed for another day at the office-except that Tri's office these days is a large swath of disputed Cambodian territory and his day is spent in what he calls "a hunting game between my forces and the Communists...
Surging out of the border jungles that had served them as sanctuaries for years while Prince Norodom Sihanouk was in power, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese bands seemed to be all over a broad swath of southern and eastern Cambodia, and heading for the national capital of Phnom-Penh. In Takeo province, 50 miles south of the capital, they battled Cambodian soldiers at Ang Tasom and Takeo, the provincial capital, closing two key highways linking Phnom-Penh with southern ports. Roughly 100 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh, Communist troops blew up a bridge and occupied a town in Kratie province...