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Well trained in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery that in performance ranks with the best in the world. As to armor and transport, Mao's millions are woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor...
...best estimates indicate that China has 35 field armies, each numbering four divisions, or 40,000 men. The Chinese infantryman is armed with a stamped burp gun of a simple type that has a fast rate of fire but an exceedingly bad reputation for accuracy. He is most often a conscript and is carefully chosen...
...Central Economic-Mathematical Institute to explore the feasibility of a network of 50 key computer stations across the U.S.S.R. linked to a "Big Daddy" blinker in Moscow. Presumably the monster would constantly engorge raw data on the economy at the local level, process it in Moscow, and electronically burp prices and other economic orders back to the provinces...
...Road to Freedom by John Stewart The words rang with new meaning in the chill night air, and the two folk singers were understandably a little anxious. On either side of the makeshift stage, grim-faced soldiers stood guard with burp guns at the ready while a barrage of flares, tracer bullets and phosphorous shells exploded and flashed eerily in the distance. But the singers sang out lustily. The audience, Vietnamese troops with rifles cradled in their arms, listened intently to their next song, Raghupati, one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite hymns...
...censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed by the 30-man Revolutionary council, a gang of malcontents led by Peking's pal Abdul Rahman Mohamed, better known as "Babu," probably East Africa's ugliest and brightest politician...