Word: armorer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Backed by armor and helicopter gunships, Soviet troops last week launched a fresh assault against Muslim rebels in eastern Afghanistan. The attacks included search-and-destroy missions against Afghan villages, the machine-gunning of unarmed civilians and even the dropping of incapacitating gas by Soviet gunships. Meanwhile, Western intelligence experts estimated, the Soviets have suffered at least 8,000 dead and wounded since last December's invasion. According to reports from Eastern Europe, some Soviet soldiers wounded in Afghanistan are now being flown directly to military hospitals in East Germany -presumably because the Kremlin does not want...
Israeli army units last week moved into southern Lebanon, by now familiar territory to them, in response to a terrorist attack on one of their border settlements. An Israeli assault force probed several miles into the war-torn country with armored personnel carriers, bulldozers and more than 300 troops. The armor quickly fanned out into the six-mile-wide border enclave controlled by Israel's Lebanese Christian Militia allies. Other Israeli units, mostly infantry, moved farther north, along areas patrolled by the 6,000-man United Nations peace-keeping force that has been deployed in southern Lebanon...
...total. During the day the Kunar valley echoes with the drone of Mi-8 utility choppers shuttling men and supplies from Chaghasaray up to Asmar or down to Jalalabad. The danger increases as dusk approaches. It is then, when a man's shadow is longest, that the armor-plated Mi-24 helicopter gunships come in low on their final patrols...
...month ago, Kabul erupted in violent anti-Soviet demonstrations. These were savagely put down by armor, helicopter gunships and Soviet-directed Afghan troops. First reports said that some 400 civilians had been killed, and hundreds wounded, in the crushing of the uprising, which began with cries of "God is great!" and "Down with the Russians!" around the 18th century Pul-i-Hesti mosque and in the nearby Chahr Chatta (four arcades) bazaar in the old section of the city. Rumors in the capital now have it that as many as 1,500 people were killed. Most casualties reportedly occurred...
...Pakistani border city of Peshawar to form yet another loosely structured "united front." Their aim: to seek financial support for more arms. One group sent representatives to mosques throughout Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, hoping to collect $20,000 for local gunsmiths to build portable armor-piercing guns; the rebels do not have conventional antitank weapons. With only homemade weaponry and local generosity to rely upon, it was uncertain how long the insurgency could hold out against Moscow's 80,000 well-armed troops...