Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, the new President will walk up the Champs-Elysées instead of being driven there by limousine...
...participating in any new peace discussions. Syria's President Hafez Assad had returned from a visit to Moscow in an optimistic mood; the Russians apparently promised him a bountiful supply of arms. TIME Correspondent William Stewart reported from Syria that Soviet ships were already unloading at Latakia, and tank carriers were hauling new T-62s south toward the front through peaceful fields of ripening wheat. Israeli military leaders believe that their U.S. weapons are superior to Soviet equipment, but if America decides to arm the Arabs too, they argue, Jerusalem's leverage will be lost...
...before, Sadat announced that Egypt would no longer depend solely for arms on Moscow as it has done for nearly 20 years. The Soviets, said Sadat, had not been generous with their arms after the war. Indeed, Egyptian aircraft losses have still not been made up by the Russians; tank replacements have come from Yugoslavia and Algeria. Henceforth, Egypt would shop around. Said Sadat,"I have taken a decision in agreement with our armed forces that we should have diversified sources of arms. This decision has been put into effect...
...useless. In Punjab state, wealthy farmers had purchased diesel pumps to use when the electric pumps failed, but the oil troubles have made diesel fuel scarce too. Gas stations selling diesel fuel have to be protected by policemen from mobs of farmers who wait for days for tank trucks to arrive and then storm the pumps. Some trucks have been waylaid on back roads by farmers who drained the trucks and then paid for the fuel...
...woods and put it right up to our noses and," here he imitates a gasoline pump, one arm as the handle and the other as the spigot, eyes blinking and rolling upward like the gallon counter and mouth making the sound of the machine as it fills the tank, "Bong bong! Bong bong! Bong bong...