Word: antipersonnel
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...researchers are seriously considering lasers as antipersonnel weapons; there are easier and cheaper ways to kill individual enemy soldiers. But more effective laser applications are under intensive investigation. Most laser research is highly classified, but Army authorities are known to be testing a tank-mounted high-energy laser...
...government's motive to give aid should be basically the same as the scientists'. Scientists have a special duty to help the Vietnamese because they "developed the napalm, defoliants and antipersonnel bombs which ravaged Vietnam," as one of them said last week, and the government that dropped those bombs and guided those scientists' work should feel that duty even more deeply...
...drive against other parts of the "rocket belt." Two infantry battalions temporarily refused to participate in the attack last week, complaining that they lacked food and that their officers were using poor tactics. They would have faced a formidable barrier around the rebel rocket sites: antitank mines and rockets, antipersonnel mines and machine-gun nests. So far, the best the government has been able to do is sneak observers forward near the rocket belt; when they hear the whoosh of a missile leaving its tube, the observers push a button that triggers warning sirens at Pochentong Airport...
...latest technological developments, in the manufacture of combat weapons. The nature of this war, in which a conventional army was compelled to fight a guerilla force on the latter's terms, demanded advances not merely in standard weaponry, but also in a relatively now and expanding form of warfare antipersonnel weapons...
...settlement is dying economically as well as literally. "Fukhar" means pottery in Arabic; there used to be 70 kilns in the village, employing 500 people. Now there are only two. Farmers are afraid to work their fields for fear they will step on an Israeli antipersonnel mine. At night, most of the villagers huddle inside the thick walls of St. George's Greek Orthodox Church for sanctuary. From St. George's terrace, Father Moussa Khoury points out the only glow visible in the valley below. It comes from Qiryat Shemona, the Israeli town 13 miles away. Looking...