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TEL AVIV (JTA)—The use of
combat helicopters in Israel Air
Force strikes against terrorist
targets in south Lebanon was con
firmed Sunday by Air Force Com
mander Gen. Amos Lapidot. He
said the type used in the July 10
attack on terrorist bases near Sidon
is regularly deployed in coordina
tion with Israel Defense Force
ground forces.
Lapidot did not identify the heli
copters. But according to the latest
edition of “The Middle East Mil
itary Balance” published last week
by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee
Center for Strategic Studies, the
Israel Air Force has 20 Bell Cobra
and 35 Hughes Defender attack helicop
ters.
Lapidot said the helicopters are
used for routine patrolling and as a
deterrent. They are available to
local ground commanders and can
be sent into action within minutes
if necessary, he said. He added that
the helicopters are one of several
options the Air Force has to employ
in strikes against enemy targets.
The terrorists do not know where,
when and how the next Air Force
strike will be carried out and this
keeps them off balance, Lapidot
said. He described the raid near
Sidon, “The attack was carried out
by combat helicopters which hit
the targets from a distance of sev
eral kilometers. We used very exact
weapons which permitted direct
hits, which achieved the goal of
destroying the targets but not
buildings, objects or people uncon
nected with the terrorist organiza
tions.”
According to “The Middle East
Military Balance,” the Israeli heli
copters can be armed with TOW
anti-tank missile systems which are
accurate and effective against
buildings as well as tanks.
Lapidot said in reply to ques
tions that the use of helicopters in
the latest attack on terrorists
“doesn’t mean we are making any
special change” of methods of at
tack. “In each instance, regarding
each attack, we analyze the target,
analyze the problem and adapt the
type of attack and weapon to that
same specific target,” he said.
In response to another question,
the Air Force commander agreed
that Syria’s deployment of Sam-2
anti-aircraft missiles near the Leb
anese border expanded the area
inside Lebanon protected by mis
siles. “We are forced to consider
this new situation which, if we
ignore, places us in effective range
of the missiles,” he said.
However, Lapidot stressed, “We
are not currently in a situation
where we want to be dragged into a
confrontation with the Syrians, with
the Syrian air defense system, even
though we have our own solu
tions.”
Goodwill Games bring ill will
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in Moscow became “Ill-will Games"
when he entered into an agreement
with the Soviet Union that black
listed Israel, the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B’rith has charged.
Nathan Perlmutter, ADL’s na
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tional director, said the Turner
operation had tried to cover up the
agreement with Moscow. He pointed
out that ADL’s Southeast Regional
Office in Atlanta contacted a Games
official last May when reports first
surfaced that Israel would not be
invited to the Games in the Soviet
capital July 5 through July 20.
Stuart Lewengrub, director of the
office, was assured by the Games’
public relations director, Ken Bas-
tian, that Israel had been invited to
submit names of athletes for con
sideration but had not responded.
Perlmutter said that Turner ad
mitted in interviews on both the
Turner Broadcasting System and
the ABC-TV Nightline program
(July 9) that the Soviet Union had
had the last word as to participants
and that he. Turner, agreed to
Israel’s not being invited. Turner
gave as “justification” for his action,
“We can’t solve all the problems of
the world.”
Declaring that “ADL was obvi
ously deceived," Perlmutter said
he failed to see “how the participa
tion of athletes from a democratic
country constituted a world prob
lem.”
He went on to say that while
Turner’s stated goal for the Games
is to take politics out of sports, “he
has cynically condoned the very
opposite in accepting the politi
cally motivated exclusion of Israel,
America’s democratic ally.”
Turner is president of the Turner
Broadcasting System which under
wrote the Games at a cost of ap
proximately $40 million.
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