Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during 1972-75. Runners-up: Israel ($5.5 billion during the same period) and Saudi Arabia ($3.1 billion). Another Middle Eastern purchaser is Jordan, which for a while this year was considering buying an air-defense system from the Soviet Union. Instead, King Hussein decided to purchase an American Hawk antiaircraft missile system. The deal was reportedly put together after Iran joined Saudi Arabia in offering to help Jordan raise part of the $550 million required...
...Dung admits that beginning in 1974, Hanoi broke the Paris accords by transporting massive reinforcements to South Viet Nam: "Great quantities of such matériel as tanks, armored cars, missiles, long-range artillery pieces and antiaircraft guns ... were sent to various battlefields." In addition, a 1,000-kilometer all-weather supply road was built to the south, as well as a concealed 5,000-kilometer gasoline pipeline. Accompanying the supply effort was a recruitment drive in the North that funneled "tens of thousands" of new troops into Hanoi's army...
...head off more shooting, Syria last week put increased military and political pressure on its troubled neighbor. At least 3,000 Syrian troops were reported in Lebanon, along with 7,000 fighters of the Damascus-controlled Saiqa fedayeen movement. Syrian tanks and antiaircraft "flak tracks" dug in three miles across the border, and armored cars probed as far as the Lebanon mountains overlooking Beirut. Curiously, it is Lebanon's Christians-not the Moslems-who welcome the Syrian incursion; they believe that the Syrians will forge a peaceful settlement...
JORDAN, which committed only two brigades to the 1973 war and suffered small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...
...beefing up its arsenal with orders to the Soviets for 40 MIG-23s in addition to the 30 they already have. Libya last year signed a $2 billion arms deal with the Soviets that includes 24 MIG-23s, 1,100 tanks, 800 armored personnel carriers and 50 batteries of antiaircraft missiles. Since these enormous quantities are well beyond Libya's defense needs, Israeli officials view them as a kind of "Arab weapons-supply depot" accessible to any nation willing to fight Israel. The huge Saudi and Iraqi arsenals could be put to the same use. Compounding Jerusalem...