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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...
...during the Moslem penitential month of Ramadan. The Secretary of State was unable to meet with fasting President Anwar Sadat until after sundown; Kissinger thus had to while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent's submachine gun-an Israeli-made Uzi-fell from a luggage rack aboard Kissinger's Air Force 707 and fired, wounding the agent slightly and setting off a momentary terrorist scare...
...hiding there. At dusk, the school caravan reached Ma'alot, and the travelers bedded down in sleeping bags in the town's three-story concrete school building. Students and teachers took turn staying awake along with the guards. But the weapons that the adults had brought along?an Uzi submachine gun and some bolt-action rifles?were left in a truck outside; a Ministry of Education rule forbids firearms in any building where students are assembled...
...them still contained bodies. Part way down the main street, now nicknamed "Peace Boulevard," two burned-out Egyptian trucks blocked the road. On one side were Israeli troops, some of them carrying captured Russian-made Kalashnikov rifles. Twenty yards across the street were Egyptians, some of them with captured Uzi submachine guns from Israel. The troops on either side leered at one another but so far had made no move to shoot...