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This week's cover story is a sales report of sorts. The goods are TOWs, AK-47s, F-5s, MIG-23s, C-130s, Uzi submachine guns and French commando daggers - commodities in one of the world's busiest and potentially most lethal markets, the world arms trade. Associate Editor Burton Pines and Reporter-Researcher Genevieve Wilson began working on the intricate story several weeks ago, as the already staccato pace of major arms deals accelerated. "The most startling figure we found," Wilson says, "is that arms sales have increased 6000% since 1952, from $300 million to $18 billion...
...airport, which is hit almost daily, American-owned DC-8s scream down the runway hourly and trundle up in front of the small passenger terminal, where they disgorge up to 45 tons of ammunition each. Across the field, camouflaged American C-130s buzz in and out every 20 minutes with loads of ammunition, while little Cambodian air force two-seater T-28s dart in and out from their bombing runs...
...drop on Ghawar and Dhahran to prevent the Saudis from blowing up oil refineries, storage tanks and producing wells. After securing the Dhahran airstrip-built by the U.S. and thus familiar-they would wave in the rest of the division. A swarm of C-5As, C-141s and C-130s would unload not only back-up artillery and infantry but also engineers who would get the oilfields working again. Three days after the airborne assault, the Marine units would come ashore by helicopter and landing craft...
...time was 6:07 a.m. and the summer sun was just beginning to spread over the deep purple mountains and brown fields of Cyprus when the first airplanes appeared. They were propeller-driven C-130s and C-47s, and Cypriots hearing the hum of many motors realized instantly that the planes were not carrying the usual hordes of summer tourists. As each flight approached the plain between the capital city of Nicosia and the Kyrenia Range, which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector...
Compared with government crises in the past, the 19 summit participants labored with uncommon zeal. Outside, chauffeurs of the 19 Alfa 2000s and Fiat 130s lined up along the villa's graveled drive, huddled over radios listening to the Italy-Argentina World Cup football match. Inside, like so many American officials unhappily missing a World Series, the political leaders gathered round a brocade-covered table in the Giulio Romano Room, so named for the artist who painted its frescoes. They did not even break for dinner-an uncommon sacrifice for Italian politicians-but had it boxed in by Rosati...