Word: ak
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...went to their homes. They took you places, introduced you to other gang members, to their parents, their parole officers. They showed you their AK-47s and Uzis. They told you their dreams. They told you about murders they had committed. Did you ever invite them to your home...
Today his task is to deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade. Before entering the scruffy cemetery on the edge of the township, Mcerwa takes off his T shirt, emblazoned with a picture of a guerrilla fighter triumphantly holding up an AK-47 rifle, and pulls on a dashiki, a loose-fitting African tunic. "Power!" he shouts to the 100 assembled mourners. "One Azania! One nation!" As a hot morning sun beats down, he angrily accuses a white-owned chemical company of murdering his comrade by exposing him to dangerous toxins on the job. "They think black life...
Remember gun control? Bush would prefer you forgot it. After all, he is the President who defended the sale of AK-47's on the grounds that they could be used for legitimate hunting. This issue works in much the same way as crime: popular fear=Democratic success. And who could possible disagree with banning semi-automatic weapons? Bush tried, and he sounded like an idiot. No doubt, NRA funding will force Bush to continue to try to defend what is popularly indefensible, leaving this issue solely for the Democrats. Even Ronald Reagan supported the Brady Bill, which Bush opposed...
With 111 factories churning out weaponry ranging from AK-47s to L-39 Albatros jet trainers, Czechoslovakia has been producing more than $800 annually per citizen, vs. $700 for the U.S. But with a dissident playwright as President and a mandate to undo the past, Czechoslovakia's postcommunist government is determined to dismantle the country's arms industry. President Vaclav Havel has ruefully noted that Czechoslovakia sent Libya enough Semtex plastic explosives in the '70s and early '80s to keep the world's terrorists supplied for the next 150 years. Just two months after the November 1989 revolution, Foreign Minister...
Finding himself one moment a rebel, the next the de facto ruler of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi allowed himself a wry comment during a press conference in London last week. Asked about the banner hanging behind him, a red flag emblazoned with the image of an AK-47, the modern guerrilla's weapon of choice, the leader of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front smiled. "I suppose we won't use the Kalashnikov anymore," he said, giving voice to widespread hopes that the decades of civil war in Ethiopia were finally over...