Word: arsenale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...national-security nabobs, China will have a new and improved generation of nuclear weapons, all thanks to Bill Clinton, Loral and Wen Ho Lee. And all the Pentagon will have to do is cross out USSR and write in PRC -- and aim everything in the arsenal a little to the right...
...this point, we're in a race with ourselves," says Thompson. "China has never desired to have a state-of-the-art nuclear arsenal -- otherwise they wouldn't be so far behind everybody else." Maybe now, says Thompson, they've caught up by a few years -- in 2002, they'll be in the 1970s, and in another decade or two they'll be where the U.S. is today. He's got a worst-case scenario, too: "The Chinese put a nuclear missile in a freighter, sail it up the Potomac, and blow it up. Who's going to care whether...
...Clinton administration's inability to keep secrets -- the 700-page Cox report doesn't have many surprises left. Yes, China has stolen the design secrets of no fewer than seven U.S. nuclear warheads from four separate labs; yes, the information was used to dramatically update China's existing arsenal. And yes, the spying began in the 1970s, continued into the Clinton years, and "thefts almost certainly continue to the present." But months of leaks and investigative newspaper stories -- and a 29-page executive summary released Monday night -- have rendered most of the report's would-be bombshells into duds...
Sophomore starter John Birtwell, the staff ace with the arsenal of crafty pitches, was named Pitcher of the Year after posting a 4-1 league record with a 1.91 ERA. Birtwell also had a league-high 42 strikeouts in 33 innings pitched...
Sophomore starter John Birtwell, the staff ace with the arsenal of crafty pitches, was named Pitcher of the Year after posting a 4-1 league record with a 1.91 ERA. Birtwell also had a league-high 42 strikeouts in 33 innings pitched...