Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected confrontation between military factions never materialized. By the end of the week, 27th Army soldiers who had participated in the Tiananmen assault had decamped and were replaced by fresh troops from other regiments unconnected with the massacre. Only hours after Deng's appearance on TV, long columns of armor left the city. The military maneuvers served mainly to camouflage a deep political conflict. The massacre at Tiananmen may have been just a violent stage in the ongoing struggle of succession, not unlike the turmoil that has occurred throughout Chinese history whenever a dynasty waned...
...machines are parading by -- the Indiana Joneses and Star Treks and Ghostbusters -- wearing roman numerals like kill counts on their armor plate. In a steamroller summer, what's a low-budget comedy to do? Strut as brightly and bawdily as possible. Anyway, that is the tactic of the new film from Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), which intrudes on the monster-movie scene like a kid blowing a May Day raspberry in Red Square...
...Gorbachev had made a new proposal on arms reduction but that the U.S. had not fully digested it. "What is it?" Bush snapped. "Find out." Aides scurried for information from National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. Bush tucked the new development away in his mind without comment, a kind of armor against questions that might arise in his upcoming press conference...
...threat of conventional war, Mikhail Gorbachev is already committed to unilateral reductions in troops, armor and artillery. He might go further in the talks with the West now taking place in Vienna, and further still if short-range nuclear weapons are on the table...
...built during World War II and designed to withstand shelling from Japan's battleships. The Iowa was fitted with nine 16-in. guns capable of propelling shells weighing as much as 2,700 lbs. a distance of 23 miles. Three six-story turrets holding the guns were encased in armor up to 17 1/2 in. thick. When last week's explosion occurred during training exercises about 330 miles off Puerto Rico, that protective armor turned the turret into a tightly sealed pressure cooker...