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Dauntless is armed with a 3-in. gun that fires 3-ft.-long armor-piercing shells, two .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, plus M-16s and handguns. Perhaps its most useful weapon is a gigantic pair of powerful binoculars mounted on the roof of the wheelhouse. The crew calls them...
...Fifth Avenue on Holyoke St. and the Harvard Pro) two buildings and two police cars were gutted with fire as guerilla warfare invaded Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. Rocks, bottles and the sound of "Street Fighting Man" from a room in Claverly to be sure, rather than M-16s, napalm and black pajamas, but it would do. Tear gas canisters tossed into the Yard--and tossed back--and into Quincy House courtyard. A curfew gave Cambridge police the power to arrest on sight anyone seen walking the streets. The Crimson turned into a makeshift first-aid center as police...
...this city.' Then he shook hands, raced back to his Jeep and sped away. Only on the outskirts of Kwangju did I see some army troops, part of an estimated 15,000 who had been ordered to surround the periphery of the city. The soldiers were holding M-16s and guarding an approach to a penitentiary. Some demonstrators were giving them candy...
...practice make the Carter Administration's concept of a "moral foreign policy" about as useful as old "Whip Inflation Now" buttons, but it tends to have serious backlash effects. When people in Tehran, Managua, and elsewhere see their neighbors gunned down by government troops using American tanks and M-16s, they often view the United States as an imperialist power supporting non-democratic regimes, not at all the image we try to portray to the nations of the Third World. While in some cases the U.S. may have to provide arms as a deterrent to Soviet expansion--to the NATO...
...military balance of power in the Middle East, a view also expressed by Egyptian officials. Said one Egyptian political leader: "By the time we get the F-5E and have our pilots trained to use it, the craft will be obsolete. Meanwhile, Israel is getting F-15s and F-16s that it can use immediately. Who really won?" The Saudis will also receive F-15s, but a former top Egyptian official noted, "It will be another decade before Saudi pilots will be flying their F-15s effectively...