Word: ilyushin
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Elementary Reciprocity. Despite its ultimate failure, the peace thrust came closer to success than any efforts in the past. Before he boarded his white Ilyushin-18 turboprop last week to end his week-long visit to Britain, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin spent some eight hours conferring with Prime Minister Harold Wilson on Viet Nam. In public, Kosygin witheringly blasted the U.S. for its role in the war. But in private, he signaled a new Soviet willingness to try to end the war, even agreed to ask the North Vietnamese if they would offer what Washington calls "elementary reciprocity" in exchange...
...brought all these woes upon himself as the chief instigator of the whole Yemen affair, must face the fact that the war's cost-about $500,000 a day at its peak-is a heavy burden to the Egyptian economy. For all his Russian-made tanks and Ilyushin light bombers, Nasser cannot promise a quick rout of either the anti-Sallal rebels or the sandal-clad royalist guerrillas in the hills. He has resumed air attacks not only on the royalist redoubts but also on border towns in Saudi Arabia, which he claims serve as supply depots...
Scaring the Neighbors. China's air force and navy remain minuscule and primitive by big-power standards. Of the 2,600 military aircraft in China, only 300 are bombers (light, short-range Ilyushin 28s, at that), and modern fighter planes are in even shorter supply. China has only one squadron of MIG-21s (probably twelve or 15 aircraft), the only planes that can stand up to American fighters. The plague of China's air force is a shortage of fuel, which forces it to fly at only 70% of its normal operational capacity. As with the army, there...
...Canada, flying one round trip each week, will use DC-8s. On foreign flights, Aeroflot now uses huge 170-passenger, two-deck TU-114 turboprops, but for the Montreal run it may inaugurate the new 200-passenger Ilyushin 62s, which have four engines mounted in pods at the tail, as well as a fancy jet-age decor replacing the Victorian look of older Russian airplanes...
...send "volunteers" to Viet Nam if Ho Chi Minh called for help. All of the pact members had made such offers before, but Ho has yet to take them up. Unity was maintained-on the surface at least-right up to the moment that Brezhnev boarded his Aeroflot Ilyushin-18 to fly back to Moscow. After kissing a row of little girls and accepting a spray of red gladioli, Brezhnev heartily embraced Ceauşescu and bussed him three times on the cheeks. The Rumanian's face remained impassive throughout the whole performance. After all, to be kissed...