Word: kalashnikovs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer apply. The Soviet-and Chinese-trained "freedom fighters " of the Patriotic Front have been forged into an efficient guerrilla force. Despite their edge in air power, some of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's white-led array units have been routed by rebel forces that are now equipped with Soviet Kalashnikov automatic rifles, portable antiaircraft missiles and other sophisticated arms. Employing classic hide-and-seek guerrilla tactics, the "boys," as they are affectionately called by the villagers who harbor them, have achieved control over much of the countryside. On occasion they have even left the bush to strike in Salisbury...
...unusual to see a Kurdish woman dressed in an elaborately embroidered homespun costume going about her chores with a child on one hip and a Kalashnikov rifle on the other. "We've got the will to fight," says one woman, patting her weapon affectionately, "and the means." The men are walking arsenals, with guns and cartridge belts at their hips and hand grenades dangling in leather pouches at their sides. Tucked away in the hills and valleys is heavier equipment, including machine guns, antitank weapons and artillery...
...precautions to guarantee the President's safety. Some 10,000 security personnel were on duty, the armed forces went on alert against terrorist attacks and all public demonstrations were banned. The vigilance paid off. On the eve of the President's arrival, four Palestinian terrorists, armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov automatic rifles, were intercepted as they slipped across the Jordan River about 30 miles northeast of Jerusalem. Their purpose apparently was to mar Carter's visit by seizing some Israelis and holding them hostage to exchange for the release of imprisoned Palestinians. The Israeli military patrol that discovered them...
...Marxists moved last week raised serious questions about the ability of Khomeini and Bazargan to hold on to the reins of revolution. When armed units of the two forces clashed during the assault on the American embassy, the split seemed as loud and decisive as the crack of a Kalashnikov rifle...
Tourism and tuna fishing are two of the islands' main industries. "You don't need a Kalashnikov to shoot tuna," says a U.S. intelligence officer. One State Department theory is that the new President, F. Albert Rene, is simply equipping his nearly 400-man Seychelles Liberation Army. Apparently because the U.S. has curbed its arms sales, he turned to the Soviet Union. Rene now presumably would be protected against a countercoup by deposed President James R.M. Mancham, head of the conservative Seychelles Democratic Party. When Mancham was ousted while visiting Britain, he scoffed: "It is no big heroic deed...