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Four miles to the east of Nacfa, a once prosperous farm town that is now a bombed-out ruin, rebel fighters carrying Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles stand watch in trenches along a ridge. Across a narrow valley, in places just 60 yards away, Ethiopian troops are dug in. Some of their comrades, identifiable by their bright green uniforms, lie dead in no-man's-land. An exchange of automatic-weapons fire echoes through the valley. Moments later, two Soviet-built Ethiopian MiGs roar overhead in search of the rebels' camouflaged artillery and tank emplacements. Sipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...Rambo: First Blood Part III. The pure fighting machine, as he is known, is in Buffalo on a special mission. But he gets lost downtown and strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos he has caused, has already left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffalo: Ruckus Over a Rambo-Gram | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...food van and, pretending to be a relative of one of the hijackers, proceeded to the steps of the plane. "Trick! Journalist!" a gunman screamed as he spotted the man's camera. As the driver fled from the scene, the gunman shot at him, then turned his AK-47 assault rifle on a crowd of journalists and photographers on the balcony of the terminal, firing over their heads. "What is this? Are you playing tricks with us?" an angry hijacker later demanded of the control-tower operator. "I want all newsmen out. One has filmed me shooting. I want that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijack Victims: We Are Continuously Surrounded | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...least until Conwell warned in his calm drawl, "If negotiations fail, we will be returned back to the original hijackers. Let me say, based on experience, that is something that I would find most unappealing." Lest reporters miss the point, a shadowy figure stalked in the background, hoisting an AK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime-Time Terrorism | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...buildup began in February. In the dead of night, 200 men in camouflage uniforms, each carrying a new AK-47 rifle and two grenades, left their secret training camps in India and gathered by the edge of the sea. At a quiet command, they slipped into plastic, wide-bottomed boats and set off, guided by fishermen who steered by the stars. In less than two hours, the fighters had crossed 26 miles of the Palk Strait and were wading ashore, ready to wage war in Sri Lanka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka the Tamil Tigers' Threat | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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