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...Kuwait, which is about to buy tanks from Britain, is also purchasing $350 million worth of U.S. A-4 Skyhawk attack fighters, plus one Hawk surface-to-air-missile battalion...
...Arabia, whose oil lifeline also runs through the Gulf, has likewise turned to the U.S. for arms and found some sympathetic ears. The Pentagon has advised the Saudis that they should substantially expand their armed forces over the next decade by adding a mechanized brigade, at least one tank battalion, an air force wing, attack helicopters and coastal-defense vessels. "I do not know of anything non-nuclear that we would not provide the Saudis," says a U.S. military official in Jeddah. "We want to sell, and they want...
...Seyoum, the deposed governor of Tigre province, which adjoins Eritrea. Mengesha, a distant relative of Haile Selassie, has an armed band of more than 4,000 peasants. Near Menz, some 85 miles north of the capital, two other aristocratic revolutionaries, Merid and Mesfin Biru, recently wiped out a government battalion...
...biggest face-lifting has been at the national soccer stadium where the fight will be held. A battalion of 500 workers has swarmed over the 60,000-seat arena day and night for three months, replacing the seats, installing lavatories and building new dressing rooms. Much of the effort aimed at impressing foreigners will go for naught. Few Americans or Europeans were willing to pay the $2,500 tab that Schwartz originally put on flight-fight packages. Zaïre declined to deal with other tour promoters, and a number of airline charters were canceled. Still, Kinshasa is a prettier...
...each bearing at the top the official seal of the WACS. The commanding officer, pointer in hand, whipped through the structure of the army, the structure of the base, the format of training, and the mission of the army. My notes for that briefing include: "WAC basic training: 1) battalion--basic training brigade--company--unit...." The rest went by too fast for me to catch...