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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Harvard Says Goodbye to a Football Legend | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Muslims Would Be Armed | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John Goldman, | Title: RED HOT: What Hits!? Presents Some of the Chili Pepper's Best | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterreformation | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

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