Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets developed the T-80 tank, which is a modified T-72 with additional side armor. Since then, 1,900 of these tanks have rolled off Soviet assembly lines...
...with brutal decisiveness but with the supreme caution of a nation abhorrent to war Guided by the most stringent of ethics. Israeli forces resisted the indecent trials of an ignoble foe. They never veered from a commitment to morality even when it hundred then immediate goals Conscience forced Israeli tank drivers to halt along routes where the PLO had placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared the swiftness of full-scale bombardment Perhaps not praise...
...carpets came in all sizes. At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography near San Diego, the Queen stood on a soggy, bath-size red mat and watched, a bit warily, as an attendant coaxed a sea lion called Ushi over the edge of its tank. Scripps Director William Nierenberg, sounding more accusatory than he probably meant, declared, "You don't have sea lions in Britain." "And you very nearly didn't either," shot back Prince Philip, alluding to decades of unchecked hunting...
...remember some people claiming that rock-bit drilling technology was of no conceivable military use to the Soviets," he says. "Yet we now know that technology has been used by the Russians to develop armor-piercing shells. I sure wouldn't want my son to be in a tank facing Soviet-supplied artillery that had benefited from access to American technology...
Like a scene out of an adventure film, the tank truck rumbles to a stop at the frontier checkpoint, churning up a cloud of dust. A border guard comes out to check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They...