Word: enfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Minister Menon came in for almost as much abuse as the Red Chinese. For four years Indian staff officers have been trying to get Menon to replace the army's obsolete, single-shot Lee Enfield rifle of World War I vintage with lighter, modern automatic weapons, and to increase stocks of heavy mortars and mountain artillery. Instead, Menon blandly presided over a military organization that was starved for money; during his tenure, the Defense share of the Indian national budget dropped from...
...patch of ground. The old fellow's bastard son shows up, learns to be an oil geologist in a trice, and shortly is locked in mortal combat with his father. It is this son who defends the fort, and he would be there yet, pinging away with his Enfield at the emir's thugs, if the Trucial Oman Scouts had not fetched him out. They are a dandy plot device, and Novelists Prokosch and Bowles might do well to borrow them from Innes...
Castro agents got another 10,000 British Enfield rifles labeled as "hunting rifles," which were shipped from Antwerp. In Italy, they bought some $2,500,000 worth of armaments, including four of Italy's excellent new 105-mm. howitzers with a range of 6.2 miles. A later deal for three LST-type landing ships was blocked by U.S. pressure. But clandestine shipments continue through Naples of arms from other nations-labeled "motors" and "used parts." As late as three weeks ago, a Greek Line freighter left Naples with Cuban-bought arms falsely manifested to Haiti...
THOMAS J. FOLLANSBEE Enfield...