Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen; Viking; 400 pages...
...coal and collected more than $50 million, which he used to build an even more prosperous empire based on petrochemicals, paper, steel-and Daimler-Benz stock. Today the Flick Group is a $4-billion-a-year conglomerate of some 100 companies that make products as diverse as bathtubs and Leopard tanks for the Bundeswehr. After Papa died...
...West German army's contingency plans in case of war with the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, ammunition distribution plans, NATO and Bundeswehr analyses of the Pact's strengths and weaknesses, and plans for development of a new generation of West German tanks scheduled to replace the current Leopard models in the 1980s...
There were tribal dancers and gymnastics displays and, on the stroke of midnight, a 101-gun salute. The South African flag was lowered; in its place was raised a banner of blue with a diagonal orange stripe and an inset of a leopard's head. In Mmabatho, the new capital carved out of the bush, the crowd roared its approval as President Lucas Mangope, head of the new government, declared that "at last we are no longer helplessly at the mercy of the arbitrary arrogance of those who until this hour trampled our human dignity into the dust...
...tanks of NATO nations, including the 58-ton American M60. Top speed of the T-72 is 43 m.p.h. on level ground. Some Western armor experts fear the T-72 may be able to outperform laser-equipped tanks, such as the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard 2 and the older U.S. M60 A2, now deployed in Western Europe; none of these possess as sophisticated a targeting system as the new Soviet model's. The U.S. does not expect to deploy its new-generation XM1 tank (called "the best in the world" by U.S. Army Secretary Clifford Alexander...