Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIREARMS. In the Hearst-Yoshimura apartment police found two M-1 carbines, a sawed-off shot gun, a Browning 9-mm. pis tol and two .38-cal. Smith & Wesson revolvers. The Harris apartment contained an even bigger arsenal: five .38-cal. revolvers, three M1s, three 12-gauge shotguns, two 9-mm. pistols and hundreds of rounds of ammunition...
...coming off the production line, and more than 1,000 have been sold since March. The company has been urging its salesmen to do their best to sell the Taser refill cartridge ($10 each) only to legitimate customers, but with the Miami robbery, another weapon has entered the arsenal of both sides in the crime...
Using coded numbers referring to prearranged assembly points, a good many of the car-borne rioters cruising the streets when school busing began in the Louisville area a week ago brought a new weapon to the arsenal of the urban demonstrator: the citizens' band radio. When local officials realized that elusive troublemakers had been keeping track of the cops as well as each other through these inexpensive two-way sets, they struck back in kind. They obtained a powerful transmitter of their own and used it to jam CB channels with loud signals whenever the chatter indicated that rioters...
...forecasting: earthquake control. What may become the basic technique for taming quakes was discovered accidentally in 1966 by earth scientists in the Denver area. They noted that the forced pumping of lethal wastes from the manufacture of nerve gases into deep wells at the Army's Rocky Mountain arsenal coincided with the occurrence of small quakes. After the Army suspended the waste-disposal program, the number of quakes declined sharply...
...Egyptian-Israeli disengagement talks have had their ups and downs, but last week the Boston Globe may have rocked them further with a front-page story that Israel had a secret arsenal of more than ten nuclear weapons. Nobody had ever before reported so authoritatively that Israel possessed bombs, though it had been widely assumed. What upset some observers -particularly those at the Pentagon and in the State Department-was less the revelation than the name of the article's author, William Beecher. Globe Diplomatic Correspondent Beecher was for the past two years-until last May -Principal Deputy Assistant...