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...found the scene almost comic. "We drove slowly past the Nasserite position at the Palm Beach Hotel and the idle warriors posing for macho pictures for photographers," he reported. "One of the leftists squatted with two AK-47 assault rifles at the ready, one in each hand...
...French visitor was recently invited to lunch with a well-educated Beirut merchant at his home, which was in an embattled Christian neighborhood. The visitor was thus not too surprised to see several Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifles-the most common weapon on both sides-stacked in a corner of the dining room. Lunch was a pleasant affair, filled with interesting conversation; when it was over the host invited his guest to view the city from his roof. There sat a mortar, pointed in the general direction of the battle lines of the day. As the Frenchman watched...
Federal agents were also striving to locate a lone man-name withheld-who was said to be stalking Ford. He was reported to be a member of the American Indian Movement, armed with three high-powered rifles and a Russian-made AK-47 automatic rifle...
Roadblocks and machine gun emplacements sprang up once again on the city's streets. Militants, their AK-47s at the ready, closed the main highway routes to Tripoli in the north and Damascus to the east. Shops shuttered quickly, and frightened Beirutis scuttled through rapidly emptying streets in last-minute efforts to stock up their larders. At the very last moment, the American University of Beirut canceled its commencement exercises, leaving capped-and-gowned students walking on an otherwise deserted campus...
...highly competitive world of weaponry, some military hardware is considered more desirable than others. An artist's rendition of the most sought-after arms on the market today (from lower left): Soviet Union's T-55 battle tank (estimated exports: 14,500), AK-47 combat rifle (225,000), SA-2 ground-to-air missile (8,000) and MIG-21 fighter-bomb er (1,900); the U.S.'s Sidewinder air-to-air missile (12,000), CH-47 Chinook helicopter (309), F-4 Phantom fighter-bomber (1,100), C-130 Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber...