Word: antiaircraft
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...forces, small-arms fire began to crackle along the shady avenues around the palace. By now, the little air force bombers were soaring high over central Saigon, peeling off now and then to make strafing runs at the navy headquarters, where defenders inside were putting up a spirited fight. Antiaircraft guns aboard Diem's naval vessels moored in the river barked back...
...Socialist Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Unloaded at night from a pair of Cuban freighters in the Algerian harbor of Oran were at least four crated MIG jet fighters, 800 tons of ammunition, three field radio stations and more than enough Soviet-made weapons-including tanks, field guns, antiaircraft guns-to arm an armored regiment. Cuban soldiers accompanied the hardware. Neighborly Nasser also sent a pair of ships loaded with military equipment, and reportedly airlifted paratroopers direct from Cairo to the main Algerian staging area near the disputed border...
...Chinese may be a long way from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...
...their trucks, even to relieve their bladders and bowels; they performed those functions right where they were. A U.S. aerial reconnaissance flight circled overhead, and a Russian jet buzzed about it. As the blockade slipped into a second night, the Russians brought up light and heavy antiaircraft weapons. At length the men started to get out and move about in groups of two and three, never far from their vehicles. Latrine screens were set up. One G.I. began giving haircuts to his buddies. At one point, Lieut. Fields himself marched up to the Communist lift-gate, raised it, got back...
Sheepish Smile. Even as Ben Bella spoke, his army moved. A convoy of seven Soviet-made 85-mm. cannon, a batch of 37-mm. antiaircraft guns and two fresh battalions rolled along twisting roads into the mountain town of Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops...