Word: antitank
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...days before the Senate adjourned last month, Barry Goldwater sat in his office sorting memorabilia. The model of an Apache antitank helicopter was destined for the Arizona Air National Guard. A rare 1964 record album, The Goldwaters Sing Folk Songs to Bug the Liberals, was headed for his home in Scottsdale. The collection of colorful Hopi Indian kachina dolls was tagged for the Heard Museum in Phoenix. The mementos form a miniature gallery of the career of the crusty, often irascible and always independent Senator from Arizona: his dedication to U.S. military strength; his lonely conservatism, which prefigured the more...
Robert Dilger's life revolves around the machinery of war. A former fighter pilot who flew combat missions in Viet Nam, he had persuaded the Air Force to adapt a 30-mm Gatling antitank cannon to its A-10 Thunderbolt close air- support aircraft...
After retiring from the military in 1980, Dilger, now 54, became a part-time consultant to Oregon Republican Congressman Denny Smith, during which time he tried to interest the Pentagon in a similar, single-barrel antitank gun -- this one homemade. Last week his project misfired...
...situation in the South pales by comparison with that in a city like Chicago. Last week a task force of federal and local law-enforcement officials raided two hideouts of the notorious street gang El Rukn and uncovered an arsenal of sophisticated weapons, including an M72 light antitank weapon. According to a local television station, federal investigators believe El Rukn had offered terrorist services to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi...
...terrorist organization ETA has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed 25 people, including ten Civil Guardsmen who died in a car bombing two weeks ago in Madrid. Last week ETA, the Spanish acronym for "Basque Homeland and Liberty," sent its latest message of brazen defiance: half a dozen antitank rocket grenades, fired from a parked car, hit the Defense Ministry in the Spanish capital, injuring nine people. On Saturday, two Guardsmen were killed in suspected ETA attacks near the northern city of San Sebastian...