Word: paratroop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will soon be held to determine the value of U.S. copper properties that are to be nationalized by the Chilean government. Accordingly, Washington has adopted a stance of calculated ambiguity toward Chile. Last week the Administration decided to grant Santiago $5,000,000 in credits for the purchase of paratroop equipment and a $4,000,000 C-130 military transport. It was the first new military aid since the Allende government came to power last October...
...unleash an arms race" in Latin America. That did not, of course, keep Allende from accepting $5 million worth of U.S. State Department military-assistance credit last week for Chile's own armed forces. The money will be used to buy a Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft and paratroop gear...
...military aid has also made friends for Israel. President Joseph Mobutu of the Congo received his paratroop training and wings in Israel; Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin recently overthrew President Milton Obote with Israeli-advised armed forces. Occasionally, however, such programs give rise to ironic situations. When Arab leaders visit Addis Ababa to attend meetings of the Organization for African Unity, for instance, they are closely guarded by Ethiopian security men who received their training in Israel...
...more elevated level, James M. Gavin, a retired lieutenant general who was a distinguished paratroop commander in World War II, warns that "junior
...latest Allied position under siege was another paratroop base about six miles southeast of Hill 31, which is eight miles inside Laos...