Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Social Democrats won the 1969 election, Brandt chose Schmidt -who would have preferred to be Foreign Minister-as his defense chief. In that thankless job, Schmidt modernized the West German arsenal and shook up the creaky officer corps, earning high marks from NATO leaders. One top American diplomat in Bonn called him "the best German Defense Minister since the war." He raised military morale and attracted volunteers by improving barracks life and allowing them to sport Beatle-length hair. To traditionalists' complaints that he was turning the Bundeswehr into the "German hair force," Schmidt asserted: "I couldn...
...year-old fanatic named Saleh Abdulla Sareya (a Palestinian with an Iraqi passport) led a group of youths armed only with knives in an attack against the Egyptian army's Technical Military Academy in suburban Cairo. They expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles, and then move on the headquarters building of the Arab Socialist Union where Sadat was giving a major speech. As implausible and bizarre as it sounds, Sareya apparently intended to arrest Sadat and proclaim himself Egypt's new President. He then supposedly planned to declare...
...With these apartments there will be a wall of high rise buildings from beyond the Hotel Continental all the way down Concord Ave.," Rockwell said. "And this will bring a closed-in feeling to Arsenal Square, which we now like to think of as an open square, uncrowded by large buildings," he added...
...rebel forces are supported by nearly 1,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong advisers and they possess an impressive arsenal. While Hanoi provides most of this equipment, some diplomats in Phnom-Penh suspect that the Insurgents have still another source of supply -government officials and military officers who make a quick profit by selling the guerrillas American ammunition...
...parapsychologists who make many of those hypotheses, they could learn the most valuable weapon in the arsenal...