Word: antiaircraft
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...Khalid bestowed a tentative blessing but warned that any Sinai disengagement must be followed by further negotiations over the future of the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Jordan's King Hussein was in a frosty mood, principally because Congress has drastically chopped his request for $350 million worth of antiaircraft weaponry, including 14 batteries of Hawk missiles. In Damascus, Syria's President Hafez Assad was courteous but stiff; later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian...
...policy must be a "two-way street." He is hawkish on the side of Israel, which he visited last week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer a "lean, tough, defensive force...
Tactically, the most important American units in South Korea may be the U.S. Air Force units; their supersonic F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers are needed to offset the 3-to-1 superiority in air power that the North boasts over the South. Other key U.S. units provide antiaircraft and surface-to-surface missile support, and field engineering, trucking and logistics battalions...
...keep any Cambodian boats from moving between Koh Tang and the mainland. When the gunboats moved, the U.S. planes circling overhead fired 20-mm. machine-gun bullets into the water off their bows. At one point, the Cambodians?their force now grown to eight gunboats?fired back with antiaircraft machine guns and small arms. One bullet struck a reconnaissance plane's vertical stabilizer, but the craft made it safely back to Utapao...
Since January Hanoi has infiltrated about 56,000 fresh troops into the South, although some were replacements for soldiers who died in fighting or returned North. They have also brought in hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery pieces, as well as SA-7 antiaircraft missiles. Recently, several small units from Hanoi's strategic reserve have glided through the Demilitarized Zone...