Word: anti-tank
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...last month. On February 18, Chester A. Crocker, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, unveiled the administration's decision to provide Jonas Savimbi's guerillas, who are fighting against the Angolan government, with at least $15 million in anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles...
...watches the news could tell you that Lebanon is a dangerous place. The real issue is the lack of interdepartmental coordination, inattention to security detail, and general absence of common sense revealed by the most recent attack. Couldn't just a few good Marines armed with some sort of anti-tank weapon have prevented the suicide car from getting anywhere near the embassy...
Israeli-supplied conventional arms sales and licensing agreements with South Africa include the following: Reshef-class gunboats armed with Gabriel missiles; Dabur coastal portal boats; hardened steel for South Africa's armored corps; self-propelled 105 mm howitzers; air-to-air rockets; anti-tank missiles; assault rifles; radar bases; and surveillance equipment...45 percent of Israeli arms exports between 1970 and 1979 were naval ships. South Africa purchased 35 percent of the ships exported...
...struggle to preserve a Palestinian identity was so strong at that time, she says, that "a Palestinian woman had to do a man's work." She is an expert marksman with the automatic weapon she still carries in her car in Beirut and can handle an anti-tank gun if need be. She is married to Abu Jihad, the P.L.O.'s military commander; as a sign of their commitment to Palestine they named the first of their four children, a son, Jihad (Arabic for "holy war"). "We are looking for peace, not war," she says, "but our rights...
Spearheaded by a dump truck that smashed through the main gate, Thai paratroops, border guards and marines rushed in. Peppering the buildings with small arms fire, grenades and anti-tank shells, the soldiers swept through the campus. The toll: 41 dead (only two of them police) and 180 injured. "They were out for blood," said one Western newsman who had covered the war in Viet Nam. "It was the worst firefight I've ever seen." Huddled in terror on the central soccer field, student captives were stripped to the waist and kicked around by swaggering soldiers. Shoes, watches, eyeglasses...