Word: antiaircraft
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...interest. The busiest part of town is the jetty, where supplies are taken off the ships and soldiers come and go all day. Trucks hauling machinery and building supplies snort up the hills toward Stanley Airport, which is crowded with Phantom and Harrier jets and ringed by gleaming Rapier antiaircraft missiles...
...step into the foreign policy arena and make public pronouncements of a type that should be coming from the State Department, or should not be said out loud at all. On a tour of the Middle East last February, for example, Weinberger suggested that Jordan should receive an antiaircraft missile system from the U.S., forcing Reagan to write a soothing letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. On the other hand, Weinberger has scant interest in mastering the complexities of arms control negotiations. He has no background or expertise in the field, and so relies on his aides...
When Terpil and Wilson ordered him to procure a lightweight guided antiaircraft missile for Libya, Mulcahy balked. In the firm's files he found startling evidence of international terrorism-for-hire, including a plan to train and equip hitmen in the Libyan desert. Mulcahy quit and went to the authorities. The Government's investigation of Terpil and Wilson was frustratingly slow. But Mulcahy, often obliged to live in hiding and disguise, persevered, talking for hundreds of hours to federal investigators and providing them with incriminating documents taken from Wilson's office...
...Israeli standards, that response was relatively mild. Israeli officials, who in the past have been quick to show that any provocation would invite massive retaliation, said that they attacked the site because they will not tolerate the presence of any Syrian antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon, not because of the ambush. The deliberately low-key response reflected what seems to be a subtle but significant change in Israeli policy. The limited action, many Israelis felt, stemmed from the massacres in the Palestinian camps in Beirut three weeks ago when Christian Lebanese forces slaughtered at least 400 people. The evidence that some...
...Beirut seemed to erupt in gunfire as the first elements of the P.L.O. contingent left the Fakhani district, site of the organization's headquarters, aboard Lebanese army trucks. For nearly three hours, hundreds of Palestinian soldiers throughout the city fired rifles, machine guns, rockets and antiaircraft guns into the air in a grand salute to their departing comrades. Watching the spectacle were 350 French peace-keeping troops who had arrived shortly after dawn that morning to assist in the evacuation...