Word: uzi
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...adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards and hand grips along the sides. Five agents and the President's personal physician occupy the seats, with an additional agent, an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun at his feet, riding in a jump seat and looking to the rear. As many as four agents sometimes ride on the running boards...
...only its own intelligence units but also CIA and National Security Agency technicians in the arts of electronic-combat surveillance, and some of them may be available. Reportedly the American technicians will also have to be well versed in the use of "sidearms," which, in the Sinai, usually mean Uzi submachine guns...
There are 62 people aboard the plane, referred to as "Nine Seventy" after its registration number, 8970. They include 25 State Department employees, ranging from Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco down to secretaries, cryptographers and Secret Service men, whose hand baggage includes Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns. There are also 15 newsmen and an Air Force crew of twelve, headed by Major Douglas Glime, 37, a former combat pilot who logged 100 missions over North Viet Nam, and who sometimes startles his passengers by putting the big blue-and-white Boeing into tight fighter turns...
This week's cover story is a sales report of sorts. The goods are TOWs, AK-47s, F-5s, MIG-23s, C-130s, Uzi submachine guns and French commando daggers - commodities in one of the world's busiest and potentially most lethal markets, the world arms trade. Associate Editor Burton Pines and Reporter-Researcher Genevieve Wilson began working on the intricate story several weeks ago, as the already staccato pace of major arms deals accelerated. "The most startling figure we found," Wilson says, "is that arms sales have increased 6000% since 1952, from $300 million to $18 billion...
...Israel uses virtually all of its defense production for its own armed forces. Last year, though, the country earned at least $50 million in badly needed foreign currency by selling abroad some weapons of its own design: the Uzi submachine gun (more than 300,000 have been sold to 50 foreign customers, including the U.S. Secret Service, in the past two decades), the Arava, a short-takeoff and -landing warplane that is being bought by Mexico and Nicaragua and the Gabriel ship-to-ship missile, whose performance in the October War against Egypt's Russian-made patrol boats impressed...