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...delicate political considerations involving a large sale to an Islamic client, the factory director explained, Moscow would prefer to create the appearance that a private company in Slovakia had purchased the units and exported them. The manager scrawled a note and handed it to my companion: "This is a Slovak trading company in Moscow. Go there, and they will make the necessary arrangements...
...worked to mature Restic very quickly, a fact evidenced by his volunteering for the Army Cadet Program in 1943 at the age of 16-and-a-half. Because of the different nationalities of his parents and the ethnic variegation of Hastings in general, Restic was proficient in three languages: Slovak, Russian and Ukrainian. This background made him an ideal candidate to be a Special Agent in the European Theatre of Operations...
...have kept fighting by stealing arms left behind by the Yugoslav army and clearing smuggling channels through Croatia. That means they mainly use old Soviet-bloc equipment, and to save training time, Pentagon officials say, the U.S. may attempt to tap those former Warsaw Pact arsenals for additional materiel. Slovak plants could provide T-72 tanks. Small arms, including the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, might be obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter the Serbs' 105-mm artillery pieces and T-72 tanks, the Muslims could use Western-made counterartillery radar, which Washington would...
These tracks, from the days of the previous guitarist Hillel Slovak and drummer Irons, are harder and more guitar-oriented than other Peppers work. The best of these songs is "Behind the Sun," displaying lead singer Anthony Kiedis's deft use of melody rather than solely...
...trouble. In Czechoslovakia, Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus is pursuing a rapid move to free markets -- he pioneered the voucher scheme for privatizing state industry that Russia now proposes to copy -- at the price of agreeing to a date of Jan. 1 for splitting the nation into separate Czech and Slovak republics. Slovak insistence on breaking up the union is fueled partly by ethnic animosity, often expressed as resentment of a "big brother" arrogance on the part of the Czechs. But it also reflects the Prague government's refusal to keep subsidizing such Slovak heavy industries as the aluminum plant...