Word: antiaircraft
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...JANET! To infiltrate a militia, Reno takes a job as an au pair in a right-wing Montana household. Watch as Janet learns to cook, change diapers and clean an antiaircraft weapon...
...Nives, two battle-hardened Sarajevan refugees, joined me for a screening of Welcome to Sarajevo, we all expected to engage in a fair share of sarcastic rib nudging and eye rolling. How could any film capture what I felt in the summer of 1994, for instance, when I watched antiaircraft rounds pierce a tram like a sardine can, and then rushed to Kosevo Hospital to interview the wounded--including a man who had not yet realized that his wife was dying on a nearby operating table? And how much less could any movie mirror that couple's paradoxical stance...
...rooftop of an Iraqi government building in Baghdad, a gun crew went through its paces again and again. The troops were working hard to improve the time it took to prepare their antiaircraft battery for action. On the street below, a taxi driver looked up inquisitively at the scurrying soldiers. "Is there going to be another attack?" he asked his American passenger. Everyone in Iraq's capital was wondering about the answer...
...mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers it up. It's all hush-hush." A hundred miles east in ("The Loneliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America"), Walter Cuchine heard news of the loud booms and set out a coffee can to collect donations for an antiaircraft gun. "Last year one concussion knocked a Senator off his podium here, but whenever you call the commanders to complain, they say, 'Did you get a tail number?' Of course not. Maybe if we were able to shoot one down, though...
...fallout from September's miniwar between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Israeli intelligence reports that Yasser Arafat's security forces, worried about another armed confrontation, are working around the clock to obtain an arsenal of antitank and antiaircraft missiles--weapons they are forbidden to have under the Oslo accords. The arms would give Palestinian forces a more credible response to the tanks and attack helicopters that the Israeli army deployed last time. Palestinian security officials deny any official involvement in weapons smuggling but acknowledge that their forces already possess dozens of LAW antitank missiles confiscated from or donated by local Islamic...