rkj (02/18/83)
After the dust had settled from the Israeli drive through Lebannon in which about 90 Syrian jets were shot down compared to zero Israeli planes downed, the Syrian defense minister went to Moscow. He requested a new shipment of missles, to which the Soviet defense minister asked, "What is wrong with the missles we sent you?" The Syrian replied, "Those were all surface-to-air missles. We need surface-to-plane missles."