Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military attache, stationed in nearly every embassy around the world, who spots a potential customer and makes preliminary contacts. Having ingratiated himself with senior officers of the host country's armed forces, the attache might gradually convince them that they need a new-model helicopter or a more powerful tank...
...Middle East is also Moscow's major customer, accounting last year for 45% of the Kremlin's arms exports. In their past three wars with Israel, the Arabs have relied almost exclusively on Russian-made T-tank...
...lack of push among recent efforts, and morale is terrible." Nonetheless, Britain last year sold an impressive $1.5 billion in arms, accounting for about 8% of world transfers. Frigates, submarines and fast patrol boats went to Latin America. Iran bought more than 1,000 Chieftain and 300 Scorpion tanks. Black Africa, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have shown considerable interest in the Scorpion, a light aluminum tank with great mobility...
...moment there is no alternative to a military government in Lima; and, as the success of the tank attack on the police indicated, the junta feels confident that it can effectively put down with brutal swiftness any challenge to its control. Still, with the Peruvian economy in trouble because of rocketing food prices and dwindling foreign loans, Velasco, who is seriously ailing with a circulatory disease, may now be inclined to consider retirement earlier rather than later...
...seems to be a one-man profession. A professor of sociology at Columbia University and director of New York City's Center for Policy Research, Etzioni, 46, has written two books on foreign affairs, debated Wernher von Braun on the space race, helped Betty Friedan start a "think tank" for women, testified as an expert on an abortion bill, and received a National Book Award nomination for a book on genetics. Two weeks ago, he was hailed by a New York Daily News headline writer as a "sexpert" for a talk on sexual ethics, and the same...