Word: 54s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most direct East-West confrontation occurred in isolated Berlin, when the Soviets suddenly shut down all roads, rails and waterways in an effort to starve the city into submission. The U.S. and Britain responded with an unprecedented airlift. Bright C-54s and battered C-47s touched down at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport at a daytime rate of one every three minutes. At its peak, these allies ferried a record of 12,940 tons of fuel and food in one day during what they called "Operation Vittles." After ten months the Soviets opened the ground corridors to the West...
...national unity has proved far more difficult to achieve than it first seemed 20 months ago when the victorious Communist T-54s rumbled down the streets of Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). Although there is little armed resistance in the South, the two Viet Nams remain divided by regional differences and decades of life under radically opposed political systems...
...well as on the diplomatic front. In southern Lebanon shortly before the latest ceasefire, Christian forces attacked Moslem towns in the border area long known as "Fatahland." Israel, which has already given small arms (TIME, Aug. 2) and even tanks-38 U.S.-built Shermans and 33 captured Soviet T-54s-to the Christians, moved several steps further last week. Israeli helicopters flew ammunition to Christians attacking the town of Marjayoun and ferried out casualties to Israeli hospitals. Israeli paratroops took up crossroads positions around Marjayoun-in sight of Israel-to block off Moslem reinforcements. Israeli artillery along the border, meanwhile...
...focused on the north, where the Communist onslaught swirled around some names familiar to many American G.I.s: Camp Carroll, Camp Fuller, Camp Ann, Alpha Two, Alpha Four. It also added something startlingly new to the war: heavy Soviet weapons, including tanks (ranging from light PT-76s to heavy T-54s of World War II vintage), artillery (up to modern 130-mm. guns with a 19-mile range) and even SA-2 missiles. By week's end, as the northern fighting settled down to a wary probing of defenses around Quang Tri city and Hué, the offensive boiled...
...frightening figures detailing the extent of Moscow's involvement, which has already cost the Kremlin close to $3 billion and is growing more expensive by the day. They claim that Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, the so-called "frontline" Arab countries, now possess 3,750 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54s and T-55s; some 4,000 big guns, ranging up to 122-mm. cannon and 160-mm. mortars; and 1,230 planes, mostly MIG fighters but also Sukhoi and Tupolev bombers. Israeli estimates of Soviet equipment in the Middle East have sometimes been off by 25% and other sources give...