Word: uzi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There had not been time to order in Israel's crack antiterrorist squads. So the task of stopping the terrorists fell to some 30 traffic cops, armed only with .38 revolvers and UZI submachine guns. When the bus finally skidded into a ditch with all its tires flat, the police rushed it. Said Arza Tazor, 24, a passenger: "I remember police breaking the windows of the bus and telling us to jump. I jumped...
...atmosphere of an armed camp. Fearful of another foray by Carlos, the Venezuelan-born terrorist who two years ago led the kidnaping of the same oil ministers in Vienna, the Venezuelan government set armored personnel carriers to guard roads leading to the conference, while soldiers toting Uzi machine guns patrolled the black sandy beaches. Even aging patrol boats were brought out to cruise the warm Caribbean waters in case Carlos tried an amphibious assault...
...reaction from the Labor Party to Dayan's defection was one of outrage. "This is political prostitution and betrayal," cried Israel Kargman, chairman of the Knesset finance committee. "He has caused us trouble for years," snapped Labor's Jerusalem leader, Uzi Baram. "Let Likud enjoy him now." Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres was reported to be "stunned"; he and Dayan were political allies for 25 years, and left Labor together in 1965; they rejoined the party three years later. Labor officials also blamed the Carter Administration for Begin's nomination of Dayan as well as the Likud...
...plant mines on paved as well as dirt roads. Traffic moves in armed convoys on many main highways, and it is a rare farmer in Rhodesia today who does not carry in his car an automatic rifle or even a "rhogun," the local adaptation of Israel's Uzi submachine gun. Very little moves after dark, aside from guerrilla and security-force patrols engaged in their deadly game of hide and seek...
...mounted Toyota pickups cruised front and rear, while a third rode herd, keeping the cars spaced far enough apart to avoid offering a tempting target. Aboard the radio-equipped trucks were a dozen police in camouflage gear, toting high-powered Belgian automatic rifles. A few also carried Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns...