Word: amx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, other Western oil-importing nations are vigorously hawking-arms to the Arabs, in part to pay their higher petroleum bills. France is about to conclude an agreement to sell Saudi Arabia 38 Mirage IIIE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and assorted other military items. In return, the Saudis have agreed to provide France with about $50 billion worth of oil over the next 20 years. Britain last week was completing delivery of twelve Westland Mark I commando-carrying helicopters to Egypt, and British salesmen are now trying to interest Saudi Arabia in some Scorpion light tanks...
Part of the payment will certainly come from French arms. Already France has reportedly contracted to sell the Saudis 38 Mirage HiE fighter-bombers, 275 AMX-30 tanks and an assortment of antitank missiles and amphibious equipment. In addition, the French are negotiating with the Saudis to equip the tanks with advanced laser aiming devices and infra-red detector systems -which would make them the most sophisticated tanks in the world...
Some of its largest deals last year included Mirage jet fighters to Zaire, AMX-30 tanks to Venezuela, antitank missiles to several Middle East countries and Super Frelon helicopters to China. Recently, it is reported, France agreed to sell a fleet of Mirages to the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi...
...crisis because several former British African colonies bitterly opposed the Heath government's plan to resume arms sales to white-ruled South Africa. Yet the 14 countries of what was once French Africa scarcely seem perturbed by the fact that French sales of Mirage jets, submarines, helicopters, AMX-13 light tanks and other arms to South Africa will reach the $2 billion mark within the next four years. As if to underscore the irony, Mauritania's President Muktar Quid Daddah, in an after-dinner tribute last week to President Pompidou, roundly condemned the British government's policy...
...were hopeful that he would end De Gaulle's embargo and release the boats. The new French President not only kept the arms ban in force but actively promoted French rapprochement with the Arabs. There are reports that he is preparing to sell 50 Mirage planes and 200-AMX tanks to Libya; U.S. officials claim that he may even sell 50 Mirages originally destined for Israel to its most irresponsible antagonist, Syria...