Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a steel bar at the back with empty coat hangers swaying when the bus is in motion. The circus was a big favorite. The first act features the famous Filatov bears and the second, a troupe of huge and somewhat soporific seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night I was there, one seal could not be persuaded to do anything at all. He swam around dreamily, often floating past the frantic ringmaster, his flippers folded across his stomach. The bears in their orange-and-blue sunsuits...
Billy argues that he needed the Libyan money because he could not obtain loans elsewhere and was running short of funds. "I've spent all my time the past year in the drunk tank or the grand jury," he said, referring to an earlier, seven-month investigation into the tangled finances of the family peanut warehousing business that found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing...
...million per month. During the next five years, Washington plans to send more than $4 billion worth of arms to Egypt to replace antiquated Soviet equipment. Besides the 35 Phantoms that arrived last fall, the Egyptians are buying 40 F-16 fighters, 800 armored personnel carriers, 244 M-60A tanks, 86 tank recovery vehicles, twelve patrol boats and an improved Hawk air-defense system...
...Frustrated by a six-year-old East-West diplomatic standoff over Afghanistan, the jittery post-Brezhnev leadership in Moscow sends ten Warsaw Pact tank divisions rumbling across the border into West Germany. Pushing back the outnumbered NATO forces, the invaders head for the French border. As the attacking army crosses the Rhine, the French President orders the use of tactical neutron bombs to protect his country's "territorial independence." In response, a Soviet-made SS-20 missile, armed with three nuclear warheads, rises from its silo in Poland and speeds toward Paris...
...themselves making allies of these reluctant warriors. They knock out a hidden German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child who has survived years in a concentration camp and then dies when Marvin takes him on a picnic...