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...advantage over the U.S. and NATO in numbers of tanks, for example. Yet Moscow's armored force includes large numbers of the undersized and underpowered T-55 and T-62 models. The new T-80 travels at a sluggish 40 m.p.h., but is equipped with a lethal 125-mm cannon and laser-guided fire control. One big advance is shields of "reactive" armor that explode on contact to deflect projectiles fired by all but the newest NATO tanks...
...bash is taking place on a high floor of a high- rise, the revelers are easily sealed off from outside aid by an invading terrorist gang. The thugs miss McClane, who is in the john when they strike, so he is free to convert himself into a loose cannon, rolling through the mostly deserted building, eliminating the gang...
...cloth, and with strong, thick fingers stroked the stubble on his chin. His black hair was cropped to its roots, his glasses coated at the edges with the grit from a morning of tilling in his stunted cornfield, which hugs a bluff above the Missouri River between Bismarck and Cannon Ball...
Driving south along Highway 1804 above Cannon Ball, Leon Malard looked right and left reading the land and assessing the scorched crops, feeling the wind and watching for neighbors' activity. One was cutting hay in a narrow field. "Without last year's leftover it wouldn't be worth it," Malard said. "I was hoping to get some weeds, so I might have something to cut out of my fields. But not even the weeds came." He points at a patch of his land. "I couldn't even get the plow in that ground, it was baked so hard. The plow...
...come from a small country that was not afraid to abolish its army to become stronger. In my country there is not one tank, not one cannon and not one warship or helicopter gunship. We love democracy and respect the law," Arias said in that speech...