Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small colleges combined to look eerily like Kent State. Then the Alabama National Guard refused to cooperate (although the town of Gadsden presented no problems), and the Defense Department ordered that no National Guard equipment or uniforms could be used. Producers ended up buying $50,000 in trucks, a tank, uniforms, etc. John P. Filo, who took the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the young woman kneeling over her dead friend, is in the movie--taking the picture. Kent State was written by Gerald Green (Holocaust...
...armed forces, and a "people's war." Local defense councils organized teams of civilian guerrillas, armed with homemade grenades, rifles and Molotov cocktails. Said one youthful warrior: "Iraqis have never seen this type of war. They still cannot figure out how essentially unarmed men can beat tanks. O.K. They shoot us-one, two, three or ten. But finally, we set the tank ablaze, drag them out and tear them to pieces. They have seen it happen to their colleagues. They try to avoid it themselves...
...result of the fighting, Iran's elaborate refinery complex at Abadan, its tank farms at Kharg Island and Iraq's aging Kirkuk production fields have been so badly damaged that repairs could take three to six months under the best of circumstances. Remarked one top energy expert in Brussels last week: "If Iran and Iraq kiss and make up tomorrow, the market would still have to reckon with a profound impact-a price increase no matter...
...multipronged drive aimed at Abadan, the nearby port of Khorramshahr, Ahwaz and Dezful, a vital pumping station on the Abadan-Tehran pipeline, and to the north around Kermanshah. The heaviest fighting, reported TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak, was around Khorramshahr, which was being pounded from three sides by Iraqi tank and artillery fire. Making his way through dust clouds raised by the armor, Drozdiak bumped into an Iraqi general, who gave him an impromptu briefing: "There is terrible fighting around Khorramshahr. Unfortunately we are not yet in control of the city...
...Since 1973, using oil revenues that now amount to $30 billion annually, the Iraqis had spent $8 billion to $9 billion on military hardware, most of it purchased from the Soviet Union. The shopping list included more than 330 MiG, Sukhoi and Tupolev fighters and bombers, along with tanks ranging from the standard T-62 model to the T-12, which is considered one of the world's best. Iraq also is reported to have 1,000 huge tank transporters, acquired as a result of bitter experience. Rushing to support Syria and Egypt in the 1973 war against Israel...