Word: ak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pull back in accordance with the disengagement agreement that Kissinger had worked out. One of the larger groups that watched the motorcade pass by was composed of Syrian refugees from the Golan Heights. The tough-looking young soldiers that guarded the airport and roads were armed with Russian-made AK-47s. Nixon's limousine also swept by a Palestinian refugee camp composed of grim, concrete-block and tin-roofed buildings...
...original top-secret files on the NATO-wide exercise "Wintex 73" (the plan of political and civilian emergency measures to be taken in case of war). A complete U.S. Sidewinder missile was stolen in 1967 from a West German NATO base, dismantled and then shipped in convenient pieces by ak freight to Moscow. By official reckoning, there are between 15,000 and 16,000 Communist agents operating in West Germany, more than in any other Western country. About 80% of them work for East German intelligence, which undoubtedly passes on the information to the rest of the Soviet-bloc intelligence...
Western intelligence experts know very little about the B.C.P. and where it gets its support. Some observers in Rangoon fear that the offensive represents a Chinese military thrust into the area. At the very least, the AK-47 rifles, howitzers and machine guns used by the B.C.P. could have come only from China's Yunnan province just across the border. According to U.S. State Department estimates, the vast majority of rank and file soldiers are ethnic Burmese. But most of the officers and cadres down to the company level are probably ethnic Chinese trained in China. Still, nobody...
...ancient covered suqs (markets), closed movie houses, irregular electric and telephone services, sporadic mail delivery and strict censorship. They hardly notice the camouflaged trucks of the Syrian army that continually rumble through the wide, European-like boulevards or the large numbers of their steel-helmeted soldiers carrying AK-47 automatic rifles along narrow, thousand-year-old alleyways. Some lightheartedly boast that when they hear a jet overhead they know whether it is an Israeli Phantom or one of their own Soviet-built MIG-21s. One Damascene explained: "The Phantom sound is softer. When you hear it, it is already gone...
...post in a remote foothills barrio in Isabela province. As the scenery below us quickly changed from the lush lowland rice fields to the forbidding forests and gullies of the Sierra Madre highlands, the pilot climbed to 2,000 feet, respectfully out of range of Thompson submachine guns and AK-47s. Suddenly, when he spotted the tiny H-shaped landing pad, he put the chopper into a tight sinking spiral and landed in the barrio. The supplies were unloaded and the colonel, accompanied by two wary troopers, climbed quickly out and up the slope to greet the company commander...