Word: depotism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistance last fall. What the Americans found was not encouraging. Fully 40% of Lebanese regulars did not have boots or field jackets, and many carried weapons that did not work. Some units had been issued three kinds of assault rifles, each requiring different ammunition. The army's supply depot was "a total nightmare," in the words of an American officer. Crates of military materiel airlifted from the U.S. in 1978 were unopened, and no one was sure of their contents. When Lebanese President Amin Gemayel ordered his army's 8th Brigade into East Beirut in February to take...
According to the Government's indictment against Smalley, the Englishman conspired to ship 100 vintage 50-ton tanks to Iran by using phony "end user's certificates," which gave the United Arab Emirates as the delivery site. He allegedly planned to buy the tanks from an Army depot in Anniston, Ala. He is also charged with conspiring to ship 8,300 antitank missiles to Iraq...
...week the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed its estimates of record U.S. and world grain production in 1982. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied for the storage of surplus grain. A few Iowa farmers are even planning to burn corn instead of oil in their furnaces this winter, and government officials in Nebraska are promoting the use of popcorn as a packing material. Says one Cornhusker official: "Gotta...
...rookie of 42-the first black pitcher in the American League; of a heart attack; in Kansas City, Mo. "Do you throw that hard consistently?" asked his first manager. "No, sir," said Satchel, "I do it all the time." Paige (his nickname came from carrying satchels at a railroad depot as a child) estimated that he pitched 2,500 games in the black leagues, won 2,000, including 100 no-hitters, and in one year played 153 games, tailing on 29 consecutive days. Said St. Louis Ace Dizzy Dean, who lost a 1-0, 13-inning exhibition...
...guerrilla bases and other P.L.O. installations, attacks were made on such nonmilitary areas as Family Beach, a popular stretch of sand and surf just south of the beleaguered capital. Israel's planes hammered hard at Beirut's Sports City, a former stadium that is now a storage depot for food and supplies for Al Fatah, a commando group of the P.L.O. Two floors of the structure collapsed under fire, burying guerrillas and their families in a broken mass of reinforced concrete...