Word: antiaircraft
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Behind these expressions of outrage are fears in Moscow that Peking may purchase up to $10 billion worth of arms from Western Europe, including antitank and antiaircraft weapons that could be used to resist a Soviet invasion. When Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua flew to London this month for talks with British Prime Minister James Callaghan, Moscow assumed Huang was on an arms-buying expedition. Said Tass: "Those in Britain who are inclined to encourage Peking's aggressive militarism ought not to forget that no rifle has yet been invented which can fire in only one direction...
...urged the U.S. and Britain to renew and strengthen their efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia. The call came against a backdrop of increasingly violent warfare in that embattled country, where Cuban-trained black nationalist guerrillas are now using Soviet-supplied mortars, armor-piercing machine guns and heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles to battle Rhodesian forces equipped with helicopters, heavy artillery and Belgian automatic weapons. More than 1,000 soldiers and civilians died in September's fighting, about the same number as during the first eight months of the year. Two weeks ago, Rhodesian troops staged a four-day raid...
...congressional delegation that flew into Hanoi's Noi Bai airport last week, there was an ominous familiarity about the landscape. Water-filled bomb craters still pockmarked the lush rice paddies. Camouflaged antiaircraft guns poked up their snouts on the perimeter of the landing field, where two huge Soviet An-22 transport planes rested. But on the ground, all the reminders of that painful land war in Southeast Asia were washed away in atmospherics of amiability. Said Tran Quang Co, head of the North American section of Viet Nam's foreign ministry, prior to a welcoming banquet for the American visitors...
...trends in Soviet policy. The gap between our capabilities to gain some advantage by striking first and Soviet capabilities to do so seems to be growing." The gap is also widening in defensive deterrence, according to John Collins. The Soviets, he noted, stress civil defense and maintain an extensive antiaircraft network, while the U.S. does not. He added: "We repudiate strategic defense of the homeland and rely solely on an offensive deterrence...
...civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate counterterror on the part of the Israelis? It certainly looked that...