Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are 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...
...contrast to the four branches of the U.S. military (Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines), the Soviets have five. The strategic rocket forces are the most prestigious, and form the core of the nuclear weapons arsenal. Next is the oldest and largest of the services, the land forces. Instead of a single air force, the Soviets have two: the elite air defense forces, which protect Soviet airspace (and shot down the Korean airliner in September), and the air forces, which are responsible for offensive missions. Despite its impressive growth, the Soviet navy ranks last in the rigid Soviet military hierarchy...
With B.C. on its two-man advantage. Dommic Campedell; sent a rocket past Daskalakis with 1-38 to go. The B.U. lead had suddenly dwindled to one and B.C. still...
...shoot space shuttle launches at Cape Canaveral, for which equipment has to be set up days in advance, and left in place, the lab's specialists adapted delicate seismographic probes used for oil exploration; activated by timers just before liftoff, the probes' circuits sense the rocket's vibrations and trigger the motor-driven cameras. "We do everything that a commercial lab does," notes Orth. "We have to be able to do anything and everything the company needs." Indeed, says TIME Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin, "the Photo Lab really comes through for us. During the U.S. invasion...
...road, of course, will not be easy. Who knows when an unknown squad will rocket to the top? A bad judging decision can prematurely end a title bid. Laryngitis is not good. At this juncture, however, Wiener and Massey control their destiny. They hold their future in their own hands...and mouths...