Word: antiaircraft
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...with shelter. In the past year, more than 100 Lebanese civilians have been killed or wounded while 58 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas. Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres last week accused Lebanon of letting more Palestinians enter the country from Syria armed with Soviet-built antitank and antiaircraft missiles...
EGYPT, like Syria, was hastily resupplied by Moscow last year. All of the 650 tanks lost in the Sinai desert-more than a third of Cairo's 1,880-tank force -were replaced, along with all the destroyed or captured SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles that proved to be so devastating to the Israeli air force. Egypt, however, is short of spare parts, and it is probably still missing about a dozen of the 150 MIGS that the Israelis shot down. In a move to redress the balance, the Egyptians are getting 36 Mirage V fighter-bombers...
Defense spending has been increased 38% above last year's $716 million. Cir cumventing a British arms embargo, South Africa bought 41 British-made Centurions and Tigercat antiaircraft missiles from Jordan. For the first time, the armed forces are organizing battal ions of black, colored and Asian soldiers, and women are being encouraged to en list for rear-echelon duty...
...city, where the headquarters of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, the civil police and the government radio station are clustered together. Dense clouds of black smoke billowed all over Nicosia, with the loud explosions of Turkish bombs being punctuated by the ineffective bang-bang of Greek Cypriot antiaircraft guns...
...week's cover subject as "a really aces actor" in the early 1960s, when Jack Nicholson was gracing drive-in screens in horror movies. In writing the story, Cocks drew on correspondents' files and the research aid of Pat Gordon, taking time out for a few quick antiaircraft battles at his favorite pinball parlor. The writing done, he turned his manuscript over to Senior Editor Martha Duffy, who asked Cocks to wait while she gave his piece a once-over reading. "I'm going to the movies," he announced. "You're what?" said Duffy...