Word: centurion
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...military camel in the parade, poked playfully by happy patriots, turned and spat expertly in their eyes. And under the crisp salute of Premier Karim Kassem-hero of the revolution and a year later still very much the enigmatic hero of the Republic-Soviet T-54 and British Centurion tanks rumbled by in a two-hour parade of military might to the anomalous music of British marches...
When Kassem's army asked Britain to supply a big order of heavy weapons (centurion tanks, Canberra jets) of the sort that Iraq regularly got from Britain before the revolution, the British government mulled things over, decided to give British munitions firms the go-ahead. Anyway, most arms will not be delivered until early next year...
...Western Premier Nuri asSaid, got down to the business at hand: Soviet penetration, via Syria and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, of the Middle East. Saud, who mistrusts the British, watched parades of British-supplied military units, climbed aboard and peered through the hatch of a British Centurion tank. Probably the most significant meeting of the week was a private, unscheduled lunch given for the two monarchs by Premier asSaid at his yellow brick home on the banks of the Tigris. There was no public mention of Egypt's Nasser;* there was no need...
...budget for arms-buying set tentatively at $2.3 billion in the next three years, the Germans also expect to gain much political influence through the judicious placing of orders-and other countries are already scrambling for them. The British are trying hard to get the Germans to buy Centurion tanks instead of U.S. M-475. The Turks and Italians are competing for ammunition orders. But the biggest purchases will be in the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Dr. Fritz von Twardowski returned from a two-week shopping mission in the U.S. with tentative agreements to buy a whopping...
...least in appearance, from the ill-equipped army the Israelis had routed only eight years before. There were 100 Russian armored troop carriers, 32 Czech antitank guns, 48 Czech antiaircraft guns, 14 Czech heavy caliber guns, 73 Russian medium tanks, French light tanks and howitzers, British 25-pounders and Centurion tanks. Bringing up the rear were 28 monstrous Stalin tanks with huge guns poking out of long, beetle-like turrets. Overhead, Russian MIGs screamed past flights of overage British Vampires and Meteors. Every Arab state but Iraq had sent contingents to swell the show, and Cairo's Al Ahram...