Word: arsenal
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...that Israel may also get and the F-5Es slated for Egypt. The F-15 can also carry a wide assortment of weapons, including nuclear bombs-though the planes to be sold to the Saudis and the Israelis will not be equipped to carry these. Managing this arsenal, while also flying at speed and keeping track of other craft, can be a handful, which is why pilots are particularly fond of the Heads Up Display panel, or HUD. This is a device that projects all the computerized combat-and flight-performance data right onto the windshield in a green phosphorescence...
What has transformed the Ethiopians from losers into almost certain winners has been the arrival since mid-December of the most imposing arsenal of military equipment that the Soviet Union has assembled anywhere outside the Communist world: $900 million worth of tanks, field guns, rockets, radar, artillery, mortars and missiles. To help with the hardware, and otherwise shore up the sagging Marxist military regime of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, Moscow has also provided Addis Ababa with a polyglot army of soldiers and technicians. According to Western intelligence reports, the roll includes 1,000 Russians, 3,000 Cubans (of whom...
...this question: On what grounds is Begin adopting this hard line? It is adopted because of the American arsenal in Israel. We had thought it would make them feel more secure and flexible, but they are using it to claim others' land...
...will not allow a single settlement," Sadat said he told Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman last month, "even if this requires that I fight you to the ends of the earth. " Sadat praised the U.S., and said he would ask Washington to provide Egypt with a military arsenal as large and as sophisticated as the one it has provided Israel?not so Egypt could launch an attack on the Israelis, "but because the arsenal they have allows them to be so arrogant." On Sunday, after a meeting of his cabinet, Begin announced that in retaliation Israel would not send...
Even though 9to5 has steadily moved into larger and larger areas, its tactics remain the same as they were back at the beginning--publicity and pressure. Hearings, demonstrations, conventions, leaflets, their newsletter, published studies and press coverage are strong weapons in the 9to5 arsenal. Its strategy is aggressive without being arrogant: if working conditions for women in offices are going to be changed, 9to5 believes, the real impetus to change them has to come from women already inside those office...