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...tank. Trailing a heavy blue cloud of exhaust fumes, 46 of the diesel-powered 40-ton machines roared through Red Square. One Western government observer's assessment: "A very businesslike-looking weapon." Already in service in East Germany and the Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra-red and laser range-finding system for accurate fire through fog or at night. Because the gun is loaded automatically, the tank requires a crew of only three; crews of four are required by its predecessor, the 37½-ton T-62, as well...
...miles away, but dust-blown little Jijiga is not yet out of enemy range, as Correspondent Wood discovered on his visit there. "Without warning," he reports, "three Ethiopian jets suddenly screamed over the town, pumping rockets and bombs into ramshackle buildings and strafing the dusty streets with 40 mm. cannon fire. In four passes, the jets concentrated on Jijiga's miserably under-equipped hospital, a target they had hit four days earlier. This time they finished the job, killing the hospital's three young nurses and four other civilians, and seriously wounding the town's only doctor...
...silence is eerie. Shell holes seem a natural part of the land. They are everywhere, vivid as footsteps in snow, unmistakable evidence that the Israeli 175-mm. artillery guns have been put to frequent use. According to people who fled the area, there were few civilian deaths. Refugees said they were not bombed as they fled north on the road...
...Communist-supplied weapons, mainly Soviet, were still wrapped in their wooden packing crates-a reminder of the fresh arsenals flowing into the frontline states. Among the prize exhibits was a deadly 14.5-mm. antiaircraft gun with glistening gold-and red-tipped bullets. There was also a Czech-made land mine of Bakelite, undetectable with any of the usual metal devices used by the army. Like the other arms on display, the weapons were newer than the Rhodesians' equipment...
...month the Israelis unveiled a new tank so uniquely protective of its crew that Israeli tankers have already dubbed it "the Jewish Mother." Known as the Merkava (Hebrew for chariot), this 58-ton multipurpose armored battle vehicle can also be used as a personnel carrier. It carries a 105-mm. main gun and two machine guns. The crew is protected against incoming fire not merely by armor plate but also by the arrangement of the tank's front-mounted engine and other equipment, and its thin silhouette presents a more difficult target...