Word: chieftain
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After two weeks of mounting tension, the frightening holy days ended last week?and the Shah still sat upon the Peacock Throne. Tehran was like a city that had survived a siege all but unscathed. Shops and schools were reopening, and office workers were returning to their jobs. Chieftain tanks and Russian-built armored cars, which had been in evidence everywhere, were now out of sight. Soldiers ventured into restaurants and parked their automatic weapons in corners as they ate. Locked in a monumental traffic jam, a Western diplomat sighed: "Things are back to normal in Tehran...
...Soviet invasion of Iran, until, they hope, reinforcements from the West could arrive. The generals see the current dissent as part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...
...Ancient chieftain's tomb is dug up in Germany
...stones that had clearly been assembled at the site in ancient times, archaeologists quickly converged on the scene. What they uncovered was the collapsed remnant of a burial mound 60 meters (197 ft.) wide, protected by massive bulwarks that hid the ornately appointed and undisturbed tomb of a Celtic chieftain who died around...
...customers inspecting the new models in an auto showroom. Evincing much more interest than the representatives of the 60 other countries attending Britain's Aldershot exhibit of glittering military equipment last week, a six-member Chinese military delegation moved slowly from display to display. It intently studied the Chieftain tank, asked detailed questions about the Clansman tactical communications system and carefully examined dozens of examples from among the 10,000 other items of defense hardware being offered for sale...