Word: western
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...addition, Western arms dealers face an increasingly stiff challenge from the developing countries. "All of God's children are producing military weapons," remarked a U.S. contractor, "so the competition is blistering." New arms exporters crowding into the market include Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Singapore and South Africa. At last month's Paris Air Show, Brazil proudly displayed its new Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, a turboprop military trainer jet that has been ordered by Britain's Royal Air Force. As more countries step up production of military hardware, they are buying less from traditional suppliers. Tokyo's insistence earlier...
...Texas and Pennsylvania. When the trains pull out each morning, cries of "Wagons ho!" fill the air. "There's no better way to see the scenery than looking between a horse's ears," says Bud Livermore, 67, a retired South Dakota rancher who scouted the route for the western wagon train...
Like Evita's tour, Bush's own "triumphant" tour of Eastern and Western Europe was just as rhetorical, just as optimistic and just as indicative of his relative lack of power in the world political scene...
...Lebanese group sent a videotaped message to a Western news agency to announce the indefinite postponement of Cicippio's execution...
...typewritten statement in Arabic signed by the Organization of the Oppressed on Earth said the 44-year-old hostage was hanged at 3 p.m. (8 a.m. EDT). Both the tape and statement were delivered to a Western news agency an hour after the deadline...