Word: katyusha
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Since the July ceasefire, according to the Israelis, the Palestinians in southern Lebanon have increased their strength in Katyusha rocket launchers by 100%, in antitank guns by 150% and in medium-range artillery by 80%. They have been supplied with Soviet-made SA9 missiles and with antiaircraft missile batteries complete with Libyan instructors. But neither the incidents of provocation nor the arms buildup can be considered sufficiently serious to convince world opinion that such an attack would be essential to Israel's security...
Iranian military intelligence units patrolling the hills northwest of the border town of Bostan flashed a warning: the Iraqis were about to attack Tang-e-Chazzabeh, a narrow mountain pass straddling the frontier. Two dozen Iranian crews manning field guns and Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were awaiting the signal from their commanding officer. Sure enough, an Iranian forward observer spotted the columns of Iraqi armor and infantry on the move. He called "Now!" into his walkie-talkie. The commanding officer yelled "Fire!" The guns roared and the missiles blasted off toward the attacking Iraqi units...
...Israeli children the darkness is composed of apprehension and memory; apprehension felt mainly in the north, where towns lie open to terrorists and Katyusha rockets; memory felt everywhere in a land that is itself a child of war, where even the youngest know of places like Auschwitz and Dachau. For the Arab children in the occupied territories, darkness is in the present; the land is no longer theirs, their freedoms are snatched away. Like the children of Belfast, both the Israeli and the Palestinian children resist the life imposed on them. The Palestinians show their strength of will in bitterness...
...fathers were killed by a Katyusha rocket in 1978 as they walked past a wall in the Manara kibbutz. There is a hole in the wall, like a bite mark, where they were hit. It is the only sign of destruction in Manara, where everything else seems to flourish. Red flowers glow in dark green bushes. Babies in colorful sun hats waddle in the playground where the cab of an old truck has been painted yellow and pink and made into a toy. The older children use the pool. From the water they may look down into a valley full...
...military effectiveness of the Islamic Guards. Thus, for the first time, the Soviet Union has introduced its weapons into revolutionary Iran. Soviet advisers, forming the nucleus of a military mission, have begun teaching Islamic Guards and some strongly pro-Khomeini groups how to use heavy Soviet weaponry, including Katyusha rocket launchers...