Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newsmen in getting to the front lines, are not at all convinced. Contrasting the claims of both sides, one expert said, "the figures just don't match-one or the other must be totally off." And, despite the joy in New Delhi at its army's great tank victory, the awkward fact was that Pakistan still held Kasur...
...President Abdul Salam Aref's departure for the Arab League conference at Casablanca. With the President out of the country, Razzak decided to make Aref's absence permanent. Backed by his newly chosen Cabinet, which was as strongly pro-Nasser as himself, Razzak ordered a tank column from the Abi Gharib camp, outside Baghdad, to occupy Iraq's radio station and broadcast "communique No. 1," announcing the formation of a new government pledged to instant union with Nasser's Egypt...
President Aref was gone, but his brother, Deputy Chief of Staff General Abdul Rahman Aref was not. He quickly rallied the pro-Aref forces - and may well have had a spy on Razzak's team. At any rate, the rebel tank detachment bound for Radio Iraq was intercepted and captured after a brief encounter in Baghdad's streets. Other loyal troops surrounded the government ministries and arrested Premier Razzak and his fellow conspirators...
...inspired products have already reached the marketplace to prove that every tax dollar invested in space will multiply many times in the economy. From the lightweight plastics that were first developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for use in missiles, North American Car Corp. now makes railway tank cars that weigh only one-half as much as steel cars. New metals developed by space researchers and subcontractors, notably the titanium alloys, are coming into use in oil refineries, where corrosive chemicals destroy ordinary steel valves. Space research has taught General Electric better means of coloring aluminum, hardening...
...week's end, both armies were digging in along the Punjab plain, their battalions stretching 800 miles, from the Kashmir border to the Rann of Kutch on the Arabian Sea. New Delhi reported "very fierce fighting" around Lahore and Sialkot and said its tank forces had killed two Pakistani generals, but neither side was claiming major advances and the battle line appeared to be temporarily stable. No ground fighting at all was reported from East Pakistan, 1,000 miles from the Punjab front, although Shastri warned that Indian troops might move at any time. On the Indian side, there were...