Word: arsenale
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McVeigh was obsessed with guns. He often kept a 9-mm Glock pistol in the barracks with him -- not locked up in the arms room, as rules require. His personal arsenal, including a Czech machine gun and assorted pistols, shotguns and rifles, was stashed in the trunk of his car. Still, neither Littleton nor Guild would have pegged McVeigh as a terrorist. "Something happened to Tim McVeigh between the time he left the Army and now," Guild says...
...presidential candidate Bob Dole's arsenal of advisers long includedformer president Richard Nixon. Before the late president died last year, he left Dole a wealth of advice onhow to make it to the White House. Dole gave aletter from Nixondetailing his strategic advice to the Los Angeles Times, which reported it today. To be nominated, Nixon wrote, "you have torun as far as you can to the rightbecause that's where 40 percent of the people who decide the nomination are. And to get elected, you have to run as fast as you can back to the middle because only...
Vice President Al Gore, at the United Nations to lobby dozens of non-nuclear nations to approve permanent curbs on nuclear weapons technology, told them the U.S. ultimately wants to eliminate its arsenal, too. Although the U.S. has a 90-vote majority in hand to extend the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proloferation Treaty, TIME United Nations correspondent Bonnie Angelo reports, Gore is trying to persuade the largest possible margin to side with him for credibility's sake. Otherwise, as Gore said in his U.N. speech, "it will encourage would-be proliferators to lie low and to clandestinely pursue their objectives...
...White House is considering a ban on all U.S. trade with Iran to punish efforts to build a nuclear arsenal there. ButTIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the Clinton Administration previously has been opposed to an all-out embargo because the business likely would be diverted to firms in other countries that compete with American companies. McAllister expects President Clinton to opt for narrower restrictions. Clinton is expected to move swiftly on various options, including proposals to ban sales of computers and equipment with military applications to Iran, or toban importing oilfrom Iran for sales abroad -- a $4 billion market. Purchasing...
Russia refused to cancel itssale of nuclear reactorsto Iran, despite Defense Secretary William Perry's warning during talks in Moscow today thatthe dealcould enable Iran to build a nuclear weapons arsenal. Perry said that while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union...