Word: ak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongholds. When the opportunity for an ambush arises, the government dispatches its version of the Green Berets: one of several elite battalions about 600 strong trained in antiguerrilla warfare by North Korean and Vietnamese military advisers in 1983. The Sandinistas have a big edge in modern equipment, like Soviet AK-47 rifles and T-55 tanks. The rebels are nervously waiting for the Sandinistas to deploy their new Hind-D helicopters, which can fly 200 m.p.h. and carry air-to-surface missiles...
...trophy hunter, however, Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, the U.S. Force Commander of the invasion, was merely "cautioned" after trying to smuggle in 24 AK-47 automatic rifles and 24 empty ammunition magazines. Metcalf has since been promoted to Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare. Why the difference in punishments? Explained Pentagon Spokesman Major Richard Ziegler: "All service members fall under the jurisdiction of a uniform code of military justice. The approach to cases may be different." Later in the week, in response to criticism, the Pentagon announced plans to review the sentences meted out to the seven...
...rebels with grenades, RPG-7 rocket launchers and portable surface-to-air missiles, as well as with radio equipment and medicines. Although the guerrillas have their own stock of rifles, which they replenish with weapons captured during ambushes or taken from the Soviet dead, the CIA sends ammunition for AK-47s, together with machine guns and sophisticated snipers' rifles. Shipments of these goods arrive every few days, sometimes in the arms of messengers, but most often on caravans that travel on moonless nights to evade the powerful searchlights of low-flying Soviet helicopters. As a senior Western military attache...
...will accompany us into Nicaragua are part of a 1,000-man F.D.N. task force that operates in Nueva Segovia. They wear U.S. Army-issue fatigues or blue-green Honduran-made uniforms or, in the case of new recruits, civilian clothes. Armed with Belgian FAL or Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles and trained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in demolition and information gathering, they appear to be a well-conditioned, highly motivated team. Some members of the unit have crossed the border before us with mortars to reinforce other F.D.N. patrols battling advancing columns of Sandinista militia...
...possibility of a Libyan act of ultimate defiance. In the meantime a coroner's court was told that Constable Fletcher had died of stomach wounds from shots fired by a high-velocity weapon, and that eyewitnesses had seen smoke and flames emanating from the barrel of an AK-47 automatic rifle thrust from an upstairs window of the embassy. For most of last week, her constable's cap lay on the pavement where it had fallen, still within firing range of Libyans inside the embassy. On Thursday, a fellow officer flouted orders and retrieved the cap so that...