Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Jennifer Hull, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Michael D. Lemonick, Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Wayne Svoboda, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz...
...rocket screams from the launcher, then another and another. There is a brief period of waiting, and then the artillery observer radios in: three direct hits within the garrison's defensive perimeter. "Communist -- tika, tika, tika!" (good, good, good!), Sher Mohammed exclaims, striking his open palm with his fist...
...scores of MiGs and other jets, and Mi-24 helicopters, some 10,000 troops managed to fight their way through to Barikot, but after a few days the guerrillas began to close in behind and around them. The main force had to retreat, leaving behind a beefed-up garrison dug in behind a maze of minefields and heavily armed with howitzers, mortars and rocket launchers...
...bought from arms merchants, and some are secretly supplied through the CIA. In the BM-13 rocket launcher, the guerrillas have a much more powerful long-distance weapon than the recoilless rifles and machine guns that constituted their "heavy artillery" a few years ago. On the ridges above the garrison, the rebels have a dozen or more Soviet- and Chinese-made heavy machine guns and several mortars...