Word: ak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real world limited. The government of Saddam is deeply paranoiac. Officials read single events as connected by strands of conspiracies. Even the Information Minister, not part of the most powerful circle around Saddam, worries enough about his welfare to have at his side a guard armed with an AK...
...immediate effect is likely to be more pain. "We are raising taxes in the teeth of a recession," Ratajczak noted. "I am not sure that many people would call that a useful idea." Added Fosler: "The budget agreement was very much like spraying shrapnel. It was sort of an AK-47, as opposed to a target rifle, in terms of its impact on the economy. Lots of sectors are going to be paying higher fees and costs for public services...
...quickly shifted his Nissan out of four-wheel drive. In a moment, he was stuck in the loose sand. In another, he was in custody. But Basa's confederates got away, their Chevy Blazers roaring off for Kuwait City. By nightfall they would resupply the Kuwaiti resistance with 90 AK-47 assault rifles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 5,000 rounds of ammunition and, at $25,000 each, three more mobile telephones equipped with portable satellite dishes -- high-tech communications systems capable of connecting those "inside" with the outside world...
...little or no food with them, have their own answers to the shortages. The invading forces, which were disciplined and relatively well behaved, knocked on Kuwaitis' doors to ask for handouts. Those troops are gone now, replaced by a scruffy army of "volunteers," mostly teenagers and retirees armed with AK-47s. They simply enter houses and take food. They seem to regard their mission as a nasty game of Supermarket Sweepstakes. Ron Jack, an American escapee who watched Iraqi forces pillage a giant Kuwaiti store, says, "They went straight for the hi-fis and televisions." Other troops have piled...
...named Operation Vula to seize power by force if negotiations fail. The meeting, De Klerk suggested, violated the agreement between the government and the A.N.C. to create a peaceful climate for negotiations. Government officials say that in smashing the plot, police uncovered weapons such as rocket- propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles...