A military spokesman said today that one Egyptian MIG-17 was downed and another crippled in a dogfight with Israeli Jets over Sharm el-Sheikh overlooking the Strait of Tiran at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. He said one of the Egyptian planes was seen plunging into the sea and the other fled toward Egypt trailing smoke. An Israeli spokesman said that the Egyptian’s jets were probably on a reconnaissance mission. Sharm el-Sheikh, which commands the star-route to Israel’s port of Eilat, was occupied by Israeli forces in June, 1967. It had been used by Egypt to blockade shipping to and from Eliat, The blockade was one of the major factors precipitating Hit 1967 war.
A report from Amman heard here claimed that Israeli jets invaded Jordanian airspace today in tin attempted raid on Iraqi artillery positions but were driven off by Jordanian anti-aircraft fire. According to an Amman military spokesman, Israeli fighters swooped over Mafraq, a town about 50 mill northeast of Amman and 60 miles east of the Jordan River demarcation line. There was no civilian here of the Amman report. Mafraq was a target of last week’s retaliatory air raid by on Iraqi artillery positions that had been shelling Israeli settlements in the Beisan and Jordon Valleys,
King Hussein of Jordan warned his troops today that he had learned that Israel planned a new, law scale attack on Jordan. The King’s alleged warning was reported In the semi-official Cairo newspaper Al Ahram which quoted an Amman newspaper as the source. King Hussein did not say when the attack was expected nor did he identify the source of the purported information.
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