-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "undisclosed-recipients:@returns.egroups.com"@world.std.com; <"undisclosed-recipients:@returns.egroups.com"@world.std.com;> Date: Thursday, 1 July 1999 2:41 PM Subject: SNET: [piml] US Said To Intercept Russia Planes > >-> SNETNEWS Mailing List > > US Said To Intercept Russia Planes > > .c The Associated Press > > WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Russian strategic bombers on a military exercise were >intercepted by U.S. fighter jets last Friday near Iceland and another two >Russian bombers flew down the Norwegian coastline, The Washington Post >reported Wednesday. > > Four U.S. F-15 fighters and an American P-3 patrol plane escorted the two >TU-95 Bear bombers in a clockwise flight around Iceland, which like Norway, >is a member of NATO, the newspaper said. > > It said Norway scrambled jets to meet a pair of Russian TU-140 Blackjack >bombers flying down the Norwegian coastline but the bombers turned back >before the interceptors reached them. > > The Post quoted U.S. defense officials as saying the military excercise was >the largest by Russia in a decade and the first time since the end of the >Cold War that Russian planes had probed Western air defenses. > > A White House National Security Council official was quoted anonymously by >the newspaper as saying ``we are looking into'' the incident but that the >United States has not raised it as an issue with Russia. > > Russian officials said last Monday that long-range Russian bombers had flown >over the North Pole and test-fired strategic missiles in six days of military >exercises last week code named ``West 99.'' > > The planes made 15-hour flights which took them over the Atlantic before >heading to the Arctic and crossing the North Pole, said Col. Alexander >Drobyshevsky, a Russian Air Force spokesman. Long-range missiles were >test-fired and hit targets in southern Russia, he said. > > More than 30 ships, several nuclear powered submarines, 10,000 troops and a >number of aircraft from Russia's Baltic Fleet also took part in the exercises. > > Russia insisted that the maneuvers were not connected to NATO's bombing >raids in Yugoslavia, which officially ended June 16. But Moscow sees NATO as >a threat, and the alliance's campaign raised calls in Russia to boost >military spending. > > Moscow vehemently opposed NATO's air war against Yugoslavia and played a >prominent role in mediating a peace plan for Kosovo. > > AP-NY-07-01-99 0100EDT > > Copyright 1999 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP >news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise >distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Just Tell Us What You Want... >Respond.com - Shopping the World for You! >http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/390 > >(PIML)is a service to help inform those who have an active interest in returning our federal and state governments to limited, constitutional government. >For subscription info, go to: >http://www.egroups.com/list/pimll > > > >-> Send "subscribe snetnews " to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-> Posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Neither public email list, open for the public and general discussion. To unsubscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=unsubscribe To subscribe click here Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=subscribe For information on [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.neither.org/lists/public-list.htm For archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
