Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both sides said four Syrian MiGs were downed. Syrians said it hit two Israeli jets, but the Israelis said all their planes made it safely back to base...
BEIRUT, Lebanon--Syrian jet fighters and U.S.-made Israeli planes dueled south of Beirut yesterday in the biggest air battle over Lebanon in three months...
Lebanese government sources said two of the Syrian planes crashed in flames near the airport, and their pilots parachuted to safety. The other two reportedly went down farther into the hills...
...Syrian military communique issued in Damascus said two Israeli jets were "hit" as well but did not say specifically where they had crashed...
...little unfashionable to praise prep school, with all its elitist connotations, but for me it was a haven, an unrelenting series of academic challenges enlivened by warm friendships with students and teachers. I didn't think I had swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...