Word: stinger
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...Soviet era gunships arrived from Ukraine, and just in time from the government's point of view. It's a devastating weapon against guerrillas, as the Afghan mujahedeen found during the 1980s - it was only after the Afghans got Stinger missiles from the U.S. that they could counter those gunships, and the Albanian fighters in Macedonia obviously don't have anything like that...
Similar worries surfaced about Tony Smith's "Stinger," a diamond-shaped, 6'6" prism that had been displayed at the 1968 Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden before traveling to Europe. "Stinger," suggestive of physical transition or spiritual passage through a portal, forms a cavernous 32' square, which raised concerns about public sex, in addition to distaste for its large steel presence. Demolition prevented "Stinger"'s installation the day before it was supposed to go up. On May 25, unidentified vandals smashed the cement mount supports for the piece, forcing Tucker to send it back to its Jersey warehouse...
...State Archives, Boston College High School, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, among others. Opening the lines of communication has spurred Arts on the Point back into action, as Tucker enthusiastically plans the installation of five new pieces: Tony Smith's infamous "Stinger," Ursula von Rydingsvard's cedar "Large Bowl with Mechanic," Gillian Jagger's "Resurrection," Willem DeKooning's "Reclining Figure" and Dennis Oppenheim's "Searchburst." He is financially fully committed to all the pieces and hopes to make installation progress over the next six months...
...ought to consider their own record. President Clinton might have pioneered a dysfunctional and dangerous cruise-missile diplomacy, but he's never matched the cynicism and pure "Dr. Strangelove" nuttiness of President Reagan's invasion of Grenada. That from the same administration that gave us Iran-Contra and shipped Stinger missiles to the likes of Osama Bin Laden back in the '80s simply because they were fighting the Soviets. And it was the Bush administration, after all, that not only stood back when it had the power to topple Saddam Hussein - an arguably necessary step to avoid the destabilizing collapse...