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These weapons include French-designed, Israeli-modified, wire-guided missiles and simple bazooka-type weapons with a warhead designed by the Israelis to penetrate the thickest armor (16 in.) on Soviet tanks. Using these missiles, the Israelis have decimated Russian T-54 and T-55 tanks and already scored an impressive number of kills on the T-62, the new Soviet main battle tank, which had never before been used in combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEAPONRY: The Desert as a Proving Ground | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

Chief rattles along on the intricacies of its plot-and-conspiracy narrative, but its humor is dispensed with all the subtlety of a bazooka blast. In the middle of an important conference, the President accepts a Paris call from "Henry," who places a rush order for some Reuben's cheesecake. The Rev. Mr. Williams assures a troubled Chief that "in times of distress, prayer is a powerful laxative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Presidential Folly | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...last Friday, four tanks and about 100 soldiers of Chile's 2nd Armored Corps surrounded the squat, gray Moneda Palace in downtown Santiago. As the troops released a hail of machine-gun, bazooka and rocket fire at the carabineros guarding the palace, pedestrians dove for cover; others scattered and ran wildly. Within minutes, seven people were dead and 22 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Trouble, Terror and a Takeover | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...vehicles, intently scanning the buildings around the square for possible snipers. Apparently they thought they spotted one on the sixth floor of the hotel, because they sprayed a window there with bullets. From the rear of the palace, which is less heavily defended, there was the sound of cannon, bazooka and machine-gun fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Trouble, Terror and a Takeover | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...local police station, killing a 55-year-old police constable, the father of six children. Across Ulster, 17 similar rockets were fired, though they caused no more fatalities. The weapons were identified as RPG-7 rocket launchers, a more sophisticated and modern version of the World War II bazooka; they are commonly manufactured in Communist countries and used by many Russian allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A Fateful Second Front | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

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