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...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...
...seizure of power in a relatively nonviolent coup by the socialist Seychelles People's United Party last year did not overly worry Washington. Last week, however, Western intelligence agencies were fretting over the meaning of some 45,000 Ibs. of Soviet small arms, including grenades and hundreds of Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, that have been shipped to the Seychelles...
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...
...seemed. "As Nkomo arrived at the spartan camp," reported Borrell, "thousands of young men in tattered clothing stood stiffly at attention, shouldering wooden staves as substitutes for the Soviet Kalashnikov rifles they will later carry. We watched as company-size units jogged in formation to the center of a parade ground, then formed a huge square around Nkomo. 'Z!' he shouted to the group, by way of greeting. 'Zimbabwe!' came the response from perhaps 6,000 voices...