Word: equips
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CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS. "Our responsibility is very small," Vitali Naumkin, the deputy director of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies, says today, adding that no one bears "entire responsibility." Fair enough. But Moscow led the charge to equip Saddam. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 80% of the major weapons systems procured by Iraq between 1980 and '89 came from three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council: the Soviet Union, France and China. Moscow alone supplied...
...weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score of clinics, for example, is being purchased from U.S. and European medical- supply companies...
...Although Arens has boasted that "we are in a position to knock out of the air any Iraqi plane that may be coming our way," his country's air defenses are largely helpless against Iraqi missiles. And even though some Israeli officials believe Saddam may indeed have managed to equip those missiles with primitive chemical warheads -- contrary to Arens' assertion a few weeks ago -- the government still refuses to issue gas masks to the civilian population...
...principal reason for this policy has been economy. Today's reservists are a far cry from the fat, lazy weekend warriors of legend. They pass the same physical tests as regulars, get the same sort of training, and drill with the same advanced equipment. Nonetheless, it costs only a third to half as much to pay, train and equip a reservist as it does a full-time soldier...
...ground-attack fighters and A-10 antitank planes. Marine units are being flown to the Persian Gulf from the U.S. There they will meet two prepositioned supply ships already under way from Guam and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. These ships contain everything necessary to fully equip a Marine brigade of 17,000 men. This includes 45 tanks, heavy artillery, armored personnel carriers and food, water and fuel for 30 days...