Word: antiaircraft
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...specific request for arms had been received from the Chinese and that each application would be reviewed on a "case-by-case basis" after consulting with Congress and America's allies. Though the Chinese will most likely be interested in purchasing defensive hardware, such as antitank weapons and antiaircraft missiles, their shopping list will not be long. Strapped for funds, Peking has placed a ow priority on modernization of its military forces and has slashed its defense budget for this year by 17%. Said one U.S. official: "As an arms market, the Chinese are somewhere between Togo and Zaire...
Special Envoy Philip Habib finally seemed on the verge of achieving a deal that would defuse tensions over Syrian antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. The surprise Israeli raid altered those priorities -and the attention the White House had hoped to focus on them-and presented the President and his chief advisers with their most delicate foreign policy test since Reagan took office...
...roof collapsed, burying the reactor's radioactive core under hundreds of tons of concrete and steel debris. Fire raged through the site. Two of the attackers, carrying cameras rather than heavy explosives, made a pass to film the scene. Then they streaked for home, ignoring ineffectual puffs of antiaircraft fire and leaving behind the one civilian casualty, one bomb that failed to explode and the mangled nuclear ambitions of Iraq...
...muffled explosions. As guests arrived at the Italian embassy to celebrate the host country's national day, some speculated that the detonations might have had something to do with the nuclear establishment. In downtown Baghdad, in the suqs (marketplaces) and along the riverbanks, no one seemed to notice. No antiaircraft fire was heard until an hour later. The city went to bed largely unaware that Israel had carried out its brilliant attack...
...proof last week that they were giving them to the Palestinians in Lebanon. The Libyans were acting as middlemen in the deal; in the past three weeks they have sent in some 52 trucks loaded with Soviet-made rocket launchers, 130-mm artillery pieces and four-barrel, radar-controlled antiaircraft guns. In addition, about a month ago, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi gave the Palestinians $75 million as a gift...