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Nonetheless, other Gulf states have responded by undertaking weapons-expansion programs. Iraq has already received MIG fighters, heavy artillery and the Scud surface-to-surface missiles, which can be fitted with nuclear warheads, from the Soviets; in addition to the American A-4 Skyhawks, Kuwait is ordering Mirages from France; even tiny Abu Dhabi, a member sheikdom of the United Arab Emirates, has obtained C-130 transports and Mirages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: THE ARMS DEALERS: GUNS FOR ALL | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...downed planes with fast MIG-21s but given the Syrians 45 MIG-23 fighter-bombers, the Russian equivalents of the vaunted U.S. F-4 Phantoms. To fly them, the Syrians have cadres of Soviet-trained Cuban and North Korean pilots. In addition, the Russians have given the Syrians 30 Scud ground-to-ground missiles, which have a range of 180 miles and could hit both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from positions well within Syria; for battlefield support, Moscow has sent 100 Frog missiles, which have a range of about 45 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Opposing Weapons | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...were ominous intelligence reports that the Soviets were resupplying the Egyptian Second Army, which is sitting in Sinai north of the Israeli-encircled Third. There were also reports, which Washington doubled, that the Soviets were shipping nuclear warheads into the area to mate them to the 200-mile-range "Scud" ground-to-ground missiles already in Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Hopeful Start for an Impossible Goal | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...Scud, a ground-to-ground guided missile with an 80-mile range. It is this missile-and not the Egyptian-built Al Kahir and Al Zafir rockets mentioned by Sadat in his speech last week-that poses a threat to the Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEAPONRY: The Desert as a Proving Ground | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

...father of Abstract Expressionism, were it not for the inconvenient detail that he viewed all abstract art with crusty disdain. Reality-the flicker of bronze light on autumnal trees, the long profile of a beach in White Waves on Sand, Maine, the arches and pylons of Brooklyn Bridge, the scud and sough of an Atlantic sou'wester-was obdurate and irreducible for Marin, and had always to be returned to, loved, and above all, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fugues in Space | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

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