Word: armament
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...cover story was researched by Betty Satterwhite Sutter, who uses non-lethal ballpoint pens, but has worked on so many armament stories during the past five years that she admits, "My dreams are invaded by visions of AK-47 rifles and rocket launchers." Associate Editor Walter Isaacson, who wrote the cover, concluded after assessing the thousands of words filed by TIME correspondents: "The arms trade has created a global powder...
...five, Sam Cummings, the son of a Philadelphia Main Line family, found an old German machine gun behind the local American Legion post and dragged it home. He rebuilt the gun and started collecting others. As a student on a term abroad at Oxford University, Cummings toured the armament-strewn battlefields of Europe, and there resolved to become a weapons dealer. Between college (George Washington University) and achieving his vocation, he spent three years working for the CIA, identifying guns captured during the Korean...
...lost a war, it could not even cope with the seizure of its diplomatic personnel by a revolutionary government in Iran. With that, the public suddenly took heed of a troubling fact: the Soviet Union had engaged throughout the 1970s in a substantive buildup in all forms of its armament...
...parents, and alumni sat motionless in the silence of Sanders Theater as Helen M. Caldicott, an instructor in pediatrics at Children's Hospital and president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, described the horrors of nuclear war and the "psychic numbing" politicians and military leaders rely on to portray nuclear armament as necessary and moral...
However, Milton Katz, chairman of the ACSR and Stimson Professor of Law, said Thursday he and other ACSR members received "very strong impressions" from those who spoke against nuclear armament, and added that he had not realized student's "intense degree of concern" about the issue before Tuesday's meeting...