Word: antiaircraft
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...modern Soviet Su-22 assault jets, at a cost of $250 million, and are thought to be negotiating for more. Peru has a present stock of Soviet-made weaponry, which includes some 250 T-55 tanks (200 more are on order) and scores of SA-2 and SA3 antiaircraft missiles. All this comes on top of a sizable arsenal acquired since the late 1960s-including French Mirage jets, British patrol boats and U.S. transport planes-that has made Peru the leading military power on South America's west coast...
...announcement last week that Syria and Iraq had agreed to defuse their own border tensions. That would mean that at least one of Syria's two divisions on the Iraqi border could be redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus too hard, lest Syria feel it had to respond...
...during 1972-75. Runners-up: Israel ($5.5 billion during the same period) and Saudi Arabia ($3.1 billion). Another Middle Eastern purchaser is Jordan, which for a while this year was considering buying an air-defense system from the Soviet Union. Instead, King Hussein decided to purchase an American Hawk antiaircraft missile system. The deal was reportedly put together after Iran joined Saudi Arabia in offering to help Jordan raise part of the $550 million required...
...Dung admits that beginning in 1974, Hanoi broke the Paris accords by transporting massive reinforcements to South Viet Nam: "Great quantities of such matériel as tanks, armored cars, missiles, long-range artillery pieces and antiaircraft guns ... were sent to various battlefields." In addition, a 1,000-kilometer all-weather supply road was built to the south, as well as a concealed 5,000-kilometer gasoline pipeline. Accompanying the supply effort was a recruitment drive in the North that funneled "tens of thousands" of new troops into Hanoi's army...
...head off more shooting, Syria last week put increased military and political pressure on its troubled neighbor. At least 3,000 Syrian troops were reported in Lebanon, along with 7,000 fighters of the Damascus-controlled Saiqa fedayeen movement. Syrian tanks and antiaircraft "flak tracks" dug in three miles across the border, and armored cars probed as far as the Lebanon mountains overlooking Beirut. Curiously, it is Lebanon's Christians-not the Moslems-who welcome the Syrian incursion; they believe that the Syrians will forge a peaceful settlement...