Word: antitank
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Earlier last week, three British soldiers met their deaths when they drove over an antitank mine. But this was the first American killed while serving in Bosnia. While that may not carry with it any special index of tragedy, it does score a notch on the emotional yardstick by which Americans gauge whether their government's latest foreign policy venture is worth its perils...
...Serbs could join the exodus by March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...
...prepare, the Pentagon has determined the Bosnians' military needs. The study concludes that the Bosnian Serbs' advantage could be erased by giving the Muslim-Croat Federation about 50 tanks plus similar numbers of artillery and armored vehicles, say Pentagon officials familiar with the findings. The Muslims also need antitank and antimortar weapons, light arms and basics like boots and bullets. In an indication of how important MPRI's role would be, the report contends that the forces need more training than arming, especially in tactics for midsize units involving hundreds of troops...
...high-speed "burst" transmitter and a clock for his Moscow apartment that lit up in response to a radio signal to inform him that a dead drop, or hiding place, had been cleared by the CIA. Over the years, Polyakov provided the CIA with data on Soviet strategic missiles, antitank missiles, nuclear strategy, chemical and biological warfare, crop diseases and civil defense. In 1980 Polyakov returned to Moscow, having successfully spied for the U.S. for two decades. Approaching retirement age, he could look forward to living out his years peacefully in Moscow with his family...
...storage shed in Herington, and McVeigh said, "If I don't come back in a while, you'll clean out the storage shed." When authorities searched a locker believed to have been rented by McVeigh in September 1994, it was empty. Nichols' home, however, yielded a 60-mm antitank rocket, 33 firearms and nonelectric detonators, four 55-gal. plastic drums, literature about Waco, antitax and antigovernment pamphlets and three empty 50-lb. bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the material used in Oklahoma...