Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that anger and partly because of the imperatives of their own national security, the Kremlin rebuffed U.S. attempts at "persuasion." It was as though the old men in the Politburo had decided to teach Carter a lesson in what happens when moralism is pitted against amorality backed up by armor and firepower. Carter was surprised not so much by the invasion of Afghanistan (the National Security Council's Special Coordination Committee, chaired by Brzezinski, had all but predicted the invasion a week in advance); rather, Carter was shocked by the Soviets' duplicity and cynicism in killing their...
Travelers alighting at Kabul airport shortly after the Soviet invasion have been greeted by a menacing spectacle: a line-up of one of the meanest looking, deadliest vehicles in the world's arsenal of armor. The vehicles are BMDs, a combination light tank and armored personnel carrier used by Soviet airborne divisions. The versatile, 8-ton vehicle is armed with a 73 mm gun, three machine guns and an antitank missile launcher, and carries a crew of five. Like all Soviet-armed vehicles-including the similar but slightly larger BMPs that are also being shipped to Afghanistan-the airtight...
...Calif. He commanded the 12th Infantry Division ("the Lionheads"), of which Robertson's Riverines were a part the night Compella died. The enemy body count for the operation was 158. Says Lemming: "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan is a gift. The terrain would be very good, especially for armor. And there would not be any beatniks raising hell with Washington. Resupply would be difficult, but of course we could do it with the petroleum from Iran. Might as well take them over while we are at it and just say to the Russians, 'No monkey business, you understand...
KABUL, Afghanistan--Diplomatic sources said yesterday the Soviet Union has moved additional men and armor into Afghanistan, but Moslem guerrillas closed a strategic highway linking the U.S.S.R. with Kabul, the Afghan capital...
...moving. Because servants or soldiers tend to be rather stiff and withdrawn, standing still is crucially important. And half an hour is long. In the last scene of [Wagner's] Lohengrin we had to stand with an 18-foot pike for half an hour, supposedly not moving--in full armor! It was boiling hot because they make the costumes look real--they don't make them to suit the climate. And you had to use both hands to keep the pike from falling over, because it was very heavy and really 18 feet--the real length of a pike...