Word: ac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world-at least for conventional warfare. The U.S. has provided ARVN with 640,000 M-16 rifles, 34,000 M-79 grenade launchers, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks and 56 M48 tanks. The air force has 200 A1, A-37 and F-5 fighters, 30 AC-47 gunships and 600 transport, training and reconnaissance aircraft. Despite such impressive figures, the Vietnamese are not as well equipped as the G.I.s they replaced. While ARVN has only 500 helicopters, for instance, the U.S. fighting force had more than...
Politically, they organized a series of demonstrations, actions such as the one that is happening now on this campus, in Sweden. There is a Swedish company called ASEA which has a patent for a specialized process of stringing AC wires long distances from the dam site into the heart of South Africa. The Swedish government was forced to make this company withdraw on the pretext that this company couldn't be sure that Rhodesia wouldn't do some of the work, which would break Sweden's economic embargo against Rhodesia, and thus be a violation of Swedish...
This not-so-hidden menace in Ol denburg's work is truly obsessive, and it supplies one of the reasons why his art cannot be seen clearly in the Pop art atmosphere of flaccid, easygoing ac ceptance of the commercial image...
Soviet Airlift In New Delhi, the mood was not so much jingoism as jubilation that India's main goal ? the establishment of a government in East Bengal that would en sure the return of the refugees ? was ac complished so quickly. There was little surprise when Prime Minister Gandhi announced to both houses of Parliament early last week that India would become the first government to recognize Bangladesh. Still, members thumped their desks, cheered loudly and jumped in the aisles to express their delight. "The valiant struggle of the people of Bangladesh in the face of tremendous odds...
...another agent in a dead-letter box. Another specialized in obtaining embargoed goods, and attempted to bribe engineers to give him electronic and computer equipment. A third promised a Briton S money if he would get a job in the Ministry of Defense, and a fourth tried to ac? quire a classified telephone directory r from a Defense Ministry employee...