Word: 47s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stayed home. So did Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who had been scheduled to be host at the nonaligned summit in Baghdad last September until his country's war with Iran forced the change in venue. There were a few jittery moments when 200 Iraqi bodyguards carrying AK-47s landed at the airport, but Indian security men disarmed them of the rifles...
...total Communist onslaught," he said. "I foresee myself in the forefront of this fight for our very existence." Indeed, more than half of the convicted mercenaries had been members of either the South African Defense Force or the army reserve. There was also evidence that Soviet-made AK-47s and Chinese grenades and ammunition used by the mercenaries had been supplied by South African Defense Force officers...
...reaching the top of the pass that led back out of the Panjshir Valley. As we reached the summit, we saw before us a seemingly unending stream of small guerrilla pack trains, each laden with heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, burlap sacks of ammunition, mortars and AK-47s. The horses stumbled as they tried to climb the zigzagging paths...
Across the Islamic world, from Tripoli to Tehran, the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was celebrated by bursts of bullets from every revolutionary's favorite automatic weapon. More than 10 million AK-47s, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov, are now in circulation throughout the world...
Small arms are a smaller problem. On the outskirts of Tabriz in northern Iran, as in hundreds of similar sites in the Third World, entrepreneurs have set up tent city arms bazaars offering everything from used Soviet and Chinese AK-47s (Soviet model: $150; Chinese copy: $75) to new U.S. Colt .45 automatic pistols ($300), all of which have found their way from armies to the underground...