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...Chinese government was involved in the smuggling operation. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns was quick to label it a law-enforcement matter and say, "I don't see why this needs to complicate U.S.-China relations." But there are suspicions. Norinco, the Chinese company that manufactured the AK-47s, is a vast military complex supervised by the State Council, headed by Premier Li Peng. The company that sold the weapons, Poly Technologies, is a trading company directed by officials with links to the armed forces and the leading political families in Beijing. One of its executives, He Ping, is married...
...guns for drug rings and street gangs. By the time the undercover deal was over, Hipple and his partner, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent who also posed as a mobster, had persuaded the brokers to smuggle 2,000 fully automatic Chinese-government-made AK-47s into...
Purvis says the remaining stumbling block to peace is disarming more than 50,000 adolescents still roaming the country with AK-47s. "It is going to take a major infusion of foreign aid. If they can't be provided jobs, then at least schools must be built and staffed...
...enough," says Defense correspondent Mark Thompson ofSaddam Hussein's newfound honesty.Now that the Iraqi leader has admitted to U.N. officials that he harbored agerm warfare programthroughout the Gulf War, Thompson says, "we know he doesn't have any weapons of mass destruction, but he still uses AK-47s on the Kurds in the north and the Shiites in the south." International attention, he adds, is now focused squarely on whether the U.S. will permit lifting crippling economic sanctions against Iraq...
...refugee camp. At least 10 people were killed and 25 more were wounded in the daylong clash. Loyalists of P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat captured much of the camp Friday morning. But after a midday cease-fire for Sabbath prayers, the fundamentalists emerged from mosques fingering the triggers of AK-47s and shouldering rocket-propelled grenade launchers; they soon recaptured all their lost territory...