Word: arsenal
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...years the nation's nuclear weaponry has provided enough security to allow Americans to sleep better at night. But there is now chilling evidence that the custodians of the nation's atomic arsenal have all the while also kept their eyes closed -- not in sleep but in egregious disregard for safety. Drawing on three years of investigations, the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week disclosed patterns of sloppy operation, arrogant indifference and willful deception in the management of the country's 17 major nuclear-weapons facilities. The result of years of mismanagement plus the estimated...
Washington unsheathed the newest weapon in its trade arsenal: a law requiring the U.S. Trade Representative to single out countries that systematically restrict American access to their markets. Encouraged by frustrated U.S. trade groups and corporations, legislators had Japan in mind when they passed the provision -- dubbed Super 301 -- as part of last year's trade bill. After listening to the conflicting advice of his evenly divided Cabinet, Bush responded to the prevailing protectionist mood in Congress and gave Trade Representative Carla Hills the go-ahead to put Japan on the Super 301 hit list, along with Brazil and India...
Having lost the past two national elections armed with a platform of unilateral nuclear disarmament, the Labor Party last week launched a strike against that controversial policy. Its national executive committee overwhelmingly adopted a proposal to scrap a 1981 commitment to dismantle Britain's nuclear arsenal without any quid pro quo from other countries...
Both the U.S. and Britain are eager to proceed with modernization of NATO's diminished nuclear arsenal. But neither wants to force a confrontation that would hurt Kohl. So the communique signed by the ministers was a masterpiece of double-talk, reaffirming NATO's determination to maintain an up-to-date nuclear capability but setting no date for deploying the new missile. The ambiguous Brussels agreement was enough, however, to permit American Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to proceed with a two-year budget request for $150 million for research and development of a new weapon...
...will the authorities go in clamping down on the demonstrators? -- As Soviet tanks prepare to move out of Eastern Europe, NATO decides not to decide on revamping its arsenal. -- Should the U.S. bail out Poland's Communists? -- France's bicentennial hoopla extols the glories of the French Revolution -- but battle lines drawn in 1789 still have not disappeared...