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...weapons and strengthen its military [WORLD, Feb. 1]. Today's Chinese race for arms could very well be tomorrow's American race for survival. Americans are financing the military buildup in China every time we buy an item made there. Several hundred made-in-China coffeemakers could equal one AK-47. We must never underestimate the Chinese just because their military equipment may be crude. The Viet Cong's weapons were crude, and look at what happened in Vietnam. JAMES A. CARROLL Green Creek...
...days behind bars. Revolutionary War re-enactors in Massachusetts may also face serious gaol time. A state law banning assault weapons calls for the arrest of owners who don't have trigger guards on their firearm. It doesn't matter whether it is a deadly AK-47 or an old flintlock. How on earth did the National Rifle Association let that one get past them...
...trip through the Afghan desert (and getting stuck in the sand three times), Yusufzai arrived at an encampment of three tents. Polite and given to praising God in nearly every sentence, Bin Laden sipped water from a cup (he was nursing a sore throat) and nestled an AK-47 as he spoke. Eager to deny reports that he has cancer, Bin Laden said he enjoys riding horses and playing soccer, but he used a stick to walk because of a bad back. He also spends time with his three wives and children in Afghanistan. Aides say his contact with...
NARCO CHIC Fashion is nothing if not aspirational. Slip on a black shift dress--look like Audrey Hepburn! Or don a shirt with images of AK-47s and feel like a Latin American drug trafficker! This is the fantasy being played out by clean-cut men in Mexico who are making popular a dope-inspired high style. After all, it's not a crime to wear a loud shirt in public...
Ahmed Allawi, an AK-47 rifle slung over his shoulder, crouched in a hilltop cemetery in northern Iraq on a chilly night in March 1995. He and other guerrillas were launching their first armed assault on the Iraqi army since the formation of the opposition Iraqi National Congress three years earlier...