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...Gaddafi was weary. As host of an Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.) summit, he had been working around the clock for more than a week to try to salvage the conference. When not whisking about in his pale blue Bedouin robes or stylish dark suit, with half a dozen Kalashnikov-toting female bodyguards in blue berets swelling his progress, Gaddafi had spent the previous few days reading reports and consulting with other Arabs about the news from Lebanon. None of it was good from his standpoint. He had just seen off the last of his African guests and changed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Venom for the U.S. | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...Palestinians will have to do what they are told or they will be killed." Wazzan shouted back: "Give me a Kalashnikov [an assault rifle] and I will be killed with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Leave West Beirut! | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

Then, without waiting for orders, 500 Iranian Islamic Guards and militiamen leaped out of their trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: A Hot and Holy War | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Keeping watch over the Soviet spy vehicles were about 200 Iranian Islamic Guards, armed with West German G-3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles. Fair-haired, Slavic-featured Soviet officers, looking incongruous in Iranian army uniforms, moved back and forth between the mobile units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Tuning In | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...because it is backed up by the threat of Soviet force. The leaders and citizens of other lands would not feel quite so haunted by the specter of Communism if they were not concerned about Soviet troops over the border, or missiles over the horizon, or secret stockpiles of Kalashnikov automatic rifles and cadres of KGB agents

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism: The Specter and the Struggle | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

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