Word: armored
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...taken their weapons with them, quickly regrouped. Outnumbering the rebels by 5 to 1, they blasted them out of the garrison in less than an hour, reportedly killing most of the insurgents. The invaders in Masaka did not fare much better. By late afternoon, Amin's armor and air force (which also bombed the Tanzanian city of Bukoba on Lake Victoria, killing ten persons) had forced the militia to retreat to a position a few miles from the border. Thus, within less than 24 hours last week, the exiles' best hopes of ousting Amin had been effectively dashed...
...effects on society. "If we want a segregated society," he says, "we should have segregated schools. If we want a desegregated society, we should have desegregated schools." And Jencks feels that his study can be used by pro-busing factions even in their present line of argument. "Armor's estimate is that desegregation has no effect on student achievement," he said referring to David Armor, associate professor of Sociology, whose recent study on busing showed that school integration had no effect on the gap between black and white student achievement. "We're more optimistic than that and say that busing...
...mutual-security treaty. All to little effect. Now the protesters have a more peaceful-and potent-tactic. Since Aug. 5, when a group of Socialist demonstrators sat down in front of a convoy of tank transporters hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers are now bottled up in the depot awaiting shipment, Japan's tough riot police have not been called out against the protesters...
Enraged Catholics. In Belfast's Rossnareen district, hundreds of children swarmed around three British Saladin armored cars, throwing rocks, bottles and homemade bombs. The Saracens careened through glass-littered streets, occasionally shooting rubber bullets from slits in their armor. Their arrival after nightfall was greeted by a din of children's warning whistles. Groups of women beat out tomtom rhythms with garbage cans to protest the army's presence-and the British failure to challenge the Protestant "nogo" areas set up by the militant Ulster Defense Association...
...incidents presaged a new round of skirmishes between the belligerent P.F.L.P. and the Israelis, who have retaliated against fedayeen attacks and skyjacks with air and armor strikes at their bases inside Lebanon. The principal loser, if the confrontation escalates, will be Lebanon, which is too fragmented politically to discipline the guerrillas and too weak militarily to fend off the Israelis...