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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knives. When he makes a public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred to jestingly by Nicaraguans as the "fish tank" or "bath tub." This is a huge, three-sided bulletproof shed with glass so thick it distorts Somoza's features; three trucks and a crew of 20 are required to erect...
...Canal to the military airport at Abu Suweir. About 50 local members of parliament and Sadat's Cabinet waited to see him off. Wearing a gray checked suit and a silvery tie, the President was beaming as he hopped down from the helicopter and bade farewell to its crew...
...from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with a large squarish sail and twelve wooden oars, each of them 6 meters (20 ft.) long...
...very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra-red and laser range-finding system for accurate fire through fog or at night. Because the gun is loaded automatically, the tank requires a crew of only three; crews of four are required by its predecessor, the 37½-ton T-62, as well as by the tanks of NATO nations, including the 58-ton American M60. Top speed of the T-72 is 43 m.p.h. on level ground. Some Western armor experts fear...
Once the drawings were approved, it took Rambaldi three months to build the alien that emerges from the mother ship to greet Truffaut. Spielberg and the crew nicknamed him Puck. The other aliens were propelled by simple machinery or by dwarfs, but Puck was animated in the same way that King Kong II was, through a combination of mechanical and hydraulic gadgets. There were even artificial tendons in his face, and by pushing levers 45 feet away, an operator could make Puck do everything but scratch his stomach and laugh like Santa Claus. "He doesn't have a wide...