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...manned by Russian pilots began to fly operational missions in Egypt. Planes and missiles were deployed around Cairo, Alexandria and in the interior of Egypt to bar Israel's jets, which had been carrying on deep-penetration bombing raids to ease pressure on troops along the Suez Canal...
Phase 3 began two weeks ago when older, Soviet-made SA-2s were moved -mostly in secret and at night-within eleven miles of the west bank of the Suez Canal. Israeli reconnaissance watched them, but no effort was made to bomb them for fear Russian MIGs would respond. In North Viet Nam the same type of SA-2s had a "kill" rate of less than one success per 1,000 firings. Suddenly they shot down two Phantoms within 30 minutes (the third downed Phantom was apparently hit by antiaircraft fire), indicating obvious improvements in their radar systems...
...Knesset that sounded like a subtle no to Washington's plan. A temporary ceasefire, Mrs. Meir said, would only permit the Arabs to "prepare for the renewal of the war in a more intense form." Her point was underscored when Soviet-made SA-2 missiles near the Suez Canal brought down a Phantom jet and an Israeli Skyhawk within half an hour of each other. The planes were the only ones to be destroyed by SA-2s since the Six-Day War other than a lone Piper Cub. The fact that Russia has apparently developed mobile platforms...
...into a kind of invective. Britain's suicide rate soared. So did crime. From 1956 to 1965, illegitimate births doubled. The money spent on gambling increased fourfold. Hard-drug usage-heroin, cocaine-multiplied ten times over. Gradually the plot of history and the quirks of society grew nastier-Suez, Profumo, the 1966 Moors murder trial. Today, Booker judges, the Great Freak-Out is over. Reality has caught up with fantasy, and the spirit of collective hangover lies upon the land...
Israel will certainly not get all 125 planes. In fact, no specific number of jets will be mentioned in Rogers' statement. Rather, the U.S. will indicate readiness to provide a continuing supply to replace planes shot down over the Suez Canal area, where Israelis and Egyptians have been fighting bitter battles for 15 months. No planes will be replaced if they are shot down deep over Egypt. At the same time that Washington announces these limited jet sales, the U.S. will press both Israel and the Arab states to move toward compromises that might lead...