Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parties, it may take him more time to assemble a Cabinet; most of the Likud deputies have not had government experience. Begin himself has served as a Minister only between 1967 and 1970; and his campaign manager, former Air Force Commander Ezer Weizman, 52, has been a Minister of Transport...
Brown was partly responsible for killing the B70 bomber (too vulnerable to Soviet air defenses) and the Skybolt missile (too unreliable). He was also involved in decisions to go ahead with a more advanced land-based Minuteman missile, the C-5A air transport, early research on the B-1 and on'the F-111 fighter-bomber (an $8 billion mistake...
...tactics are pretty much the same, I guess. We "leg" soldiers have to move fast, but the new utility transport helicopter and the armored combat vehicle are improvements over the old armored personnel carriers (we've got that type around...
...leader of this party is a gentle spirit, dignified and impractical. To him there is nothing ridiculous in the sight of his men toiling along treacherous trails, weighted down by armor, struggling to transport an entirely useless cannon. He has brought his wife with him and his second in command's daughter. What begins as an obviously dangerous journey soon turns into a manifestly self-destructive one. The rafts built to navigate the river are inadequate to its currents. And then, of course, there are the Indians, always in the shadows, picking off stragglers. But the worst danger derives...
SUDAN. Pop. 18 million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...