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...people and women walking along, carrying their belongings on bicycles." At 2:30 Sunday afternoon, the sirens wailed again in Haiphong. For more than an hour, 40 Navy jets from carriers wheeled around the city, pummeling warehouses, a huge truck park and nearby Kien An Airfield, where three MIG-17 fighters were destroyed on the ground. By the time the third attack had ended, the sky over Haiphong was streaked by the vapor trails of SAM missiles...
Many of the 5,000 guerrillas estimated to have been in the area retreated into the wooded borderlands near Syria. Soon fighting shifted to Syria's Golan Heights, overlooking Israel. For the first time in 21 months, in support of ground fighters, obsolescent Syrian MIG-17s either strafed Israeli positions, as Damascus had it, or dumped their bombs in a field, as the Israelis reported. The fighting was brief; with its capital of Damascus dangerously close to the present ceasefire line-only 30 miles separated them -Syria has good reason not to let such battles escalate. Even...
...Saigon for signs of three North Vietnamese divisions known to be poised just inside Cambodia. Meanwhile, the air war continues. B-52 bombers have been striking Communist concentrations in the Highlands. Over North Viet Nam, a U.S. F-4 Phantom jet accounted for the first "kill" of an enemy MIG-21 in 22 months, but Communist gunners also downed two American F-4s-bringing to 13 the total of planes lost since mid-December...
Within minutes, a 740 m.p.h. Czechoslovak air force MIG 17 was on his tail. When the pilot fired a poorly aimed cannon burst, Bezak turned and put the Zlin into a steep 4,000-ft. dive. As G forces slapped his sons against the cockpit canopy, his wife Marie, 27, shouted, "It's all up! We'd better go back." Instead, Bezak watched as the MIG frantically circled to make another firing run, and banked the plane as if he were obeying the air force pilot's unmistakable signal to return. Suddenly, Bezak turned again and slipped...
...sight of the MIG, Bezak hedgehopped across the countryside at an altitude of 400 ft. About 20 minutes later, he crossed the border safely near Nuremberg. On the ground, Bezak told reporters that he hoped to find work as a commercial pilot. Meantime, a West German magazine bought the first-person story of his escape for $2,100, giving his family a modest stake with which to begin their new life in the West...