Word: 5s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...well as several other states, the duration of the Nigerian civil war can probably be attributed as much to the steady flow of French weaponry to breakaway Biafra as to the fighting spirit of the Ibos. In Latin America, France has sold arms to nine nations (including 106 Mirage 5s to Argentina and 111 Mirage mcs to Brazil). Currently it is offering its Exocet antiship missile to both the left-wing military dictatorship of Peru and the right-wing military dictatorship of Chile...
...Oufkir, are you mad?" replied Hassan. "Even supposing we knew his flight plan, his altitude, his route and we hit him, you must realize that there would be an inquiry. They would find traces of bullets and rockets. In this area only Morocco has F-5s. Can you imagine the international scandal? Piracy in midair against a chief of state?" Then, to put the matter firmly out of hand, the King added: "Oufkir, I absolutely forbid this business...
...political intrigue-so similar in plan to the abortive coup that General Oufkir led against the Moroccan monarch himself two weeks ago-was recalled by King Hassan last week as he told of his narrow escape from the aerial attack on his plane. When three Moroccan air force F-5s opened fire on the King's Boeing 727 jetliner over the Mediterranean, Hassan related, it was this scene with Oufkir that flashed across his mind "immediately, just like a film...
...asked for together with needed tanks for his armored forces. The Pentagon did, however, turn down Hussein's request for F-4 Phantom jets, which the U.S. supplies to Israel. It suggested that the Jordanian air force, with limited missions, might do better with the less sophisticated F-5s and F-104 Starfighters...