Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Special Forces qualification course, and served with the Green Berets. In Beirut he was identified merely as a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post. Friends there remember him as a "walking arsenal" of guns and knives. His real assignment reportedly was to work with the CIA in reconnoitering the American hostages in Lebanon and then, if feasible, to lead a daring raid that would rescue them...
...President Hafez Assad to lash out at U.S. Middle East policies. Damascus already has Scud missiles capable of striking Israel. The Scud-Cs believed to be part of the Ho's cargo have a greater range, at more than 300 miles, than the Scud-Bs already in Syria's arsenal, but they would not significantly alter the balance of power in the Middle East. While denying that the Ho was delivering new missiles -- a denial echoed by North Korea -- Assad attacked Washington's efforts to "strip the Arabs of their weapons" while "allowing Israel to manufacture arms...
...anti-Western, nationalistic regime in Moscow would probably not resemble the old U.S.S.R., but it could stake its claim to superpower status by refurbishing the nuclear arsenal of Russia's still immense armed forces and recharging its military-industrial complex. Then, in the first frost of a new cold war, accusatory voices would rise in the West, demanding to know, "Who lost Russia...
...dead, and she's ready to take on her impotent fiancee, his lover and an 18-year-old homosexual production assistant, all in the courtroom of her own kitchen. So begins Zora's Kitchen, as cast and audience embark on a fantastically clever and witty journey, replete with an arsenal of frying pans, phone sex and fornication...
Tsongas admits there is no painless way to make a transition to his new plan for America. The decision to downsize our arsenal will cost many jobs and job retraining expenditures. The reduction of our debt will take fiscal discipline and commitment. Again, Tsongas economic plan--developed with famous MIT economist Lester Thurow--is clear...