Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside the sunken, multistory bunkers, equipped with electric lights, TV, foam-rubber mattresses and even disposable plastic mess gear, life becomes a routine of sitting out one artillery barrage after another. Dust blows off the dunes in gagging flurries and the heat is stifling, but the bunkers are relatively safe. The tanklike forts are topped with such a sturdy mixture of sand, concrete, timber and steel rails ripped up from the trans-Sinai line that even accurate salvos send little more than tremors below. The Suez defenders, who call themselves "moles," pass the hours in the cramped forts cleaning their...
Phnom-Penh, including 7,200 World War II-vintage M-2 carbines, 6,000 captured Soviet-designed AK-47 rifles and communications gear. In Washington last week, Secretary of State William Rogers made the first public admission that "we had air activity over Cambodia before the change of government," and he indicated that it could continue after June 30; yet Rogers stated flatly that the U.S. would not "become involved militarily in support of any Cambodian government." Evidently, Saigon intends to take on that task. Vice President Ky said last week that South Viet Nam is building a string...
...seems that future demonstrations can take one of two paths. The Administration could invest thousands of dollars in video tape machines and dress photographers in riot gear for defense against demonstrators who would be understandably irate. When the video tape was suggested at a CRR hearing. Bowie responded favorably. (No longer would Bowie waste the CRR's time with flimsy evidence...
...rises, Mao Tse-tung comes out in the East . . ."), the latest satellite was roughly twice the size of the earliest 1957-vintage Russian Sputnik 1. Its launching demonstrated that China has joined the ranks of the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan in developing both rocketry and electronic gear capable of such a feat...
Players began to practice. and then Chui Lim-Ming and Charlie Chan. who made up one of the M.I.T. teams. arrived. They talked to the coordinator of the meet. professor Richard Lang of Northeastern, then dropped their gear on the bleachers and began to practice...