Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consultation with key Congressmen, the Scowcroft commission issued a report recommending that the MX proceed as a short-term, stopgap measure, but that Midgetman be the principal ICBM of the future. The report recommended that the Administration, in order to make room for numerous Midgetman missiles, lift the 850-launcher ceiling that had been incorporated into the original START proposal at the behest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report questioned the Administration's longstanding but widely contested claim that American ICBMs were already vulnerable to pre-emptive attack from the more numerous Soviet ICBMs, and it obliquely...
...Aviv. Their demand: free 25 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails or else the vehicle and its 39 passengers would be blown up. Then followed a tense, almost ten-hour standoff. Dozens of soldiers ringed the bus; inside, one of the terrorists could be seen holding a grenade launcher. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., Israeli commandos rushed the bus. Two terrorists were killed instantly, and the other two died of their wounds on the way to the hospital. One passenger died and seven were injured in the crossfire. Another grim episode of terrorism, so depressingly familiar to all Israelis, appeared...
...used by poorly trained troops. As an example of a first-rate Soviet product, American experts point to the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle. Simple, reliable and versatile, it is the favored weapon of guerrillas from Central America to Southeast Asia. The Soviet-built RPG-7 antitank rocket launcher is also easy to operate and has proved lethal in the fighting in Lebanon...
...Tripoli. Arafat apparently promised not to shell rebel positions from within the city, thus risking return fire, while Abu Mousa pledged not to invade. Nonetheless, rumors floated through the city all week that Arafat was about to flee. On Thursday, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini announced that the missile launcher Orsa and the destroyer Intrepido stood ready off the Lebanese coast to evacuate Arafat...
...weapons." The White House has been hinting at much the same thing in special, secret briefings for key members of Congress. In those sessions, the Administration has indicated that a favorable Soviet response to Reagan's major public change in the START package, the lifting of the 850-launcher limit, might lead to other adjustments in the U.S. position later...