Word: antiaircraft
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Genscher's roots help explain his passion for unification. Born in Halle in 1927, Genscher was drafted into Hitler's military at age 15 and manned the radar for antiaircraft guns; after the war his hometown became a part of East Germany, and in 1952 he fled to West Germany. Since the early 1970s, when travel restrictions between East and West Germany were eased, he has regularly made visits to Halle, keeping in touch with friends and family as well as with the mood in the East...
...passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an antiaircraft gun, even missiles...
...zero in on a plane, blasting it from the sky in a sickening burst of flame and smoke. Moreover, such missiles are all too available to terrorist groups and criminals around the world. Last week intelligence reports indicated that the Colombian cocaine cartels may be stockpiling just such antiaircraft devices. The fear is that the drug lords could use them to mount an attack on President George Bush when he flies into the Colombian city of Cartagena for a four-nation antidrug summit starting...
...report that Colombian drug lords may be stockpiling antiaircraft missiles focuses attention on the President's plane and the electronic gear that guards...
...Force's supersecret $50 million F-117A Stealth fighter is designed to avoid detection by sophisticated radar as it homes in on enemy targets. The Panama Defense Forces had no effective radar, antiaircraft guns or interceptor planes. So why were two F-117As dashing over Panama at the start of the American invasion and dropping bombs on an open field near a P.D.F. barracks? To wage a public relations assault on the U.S. Congress...