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...match his father's commanding power. But even those who laugh loudest at his vanities take one of his indulgences quite seriously: Kim, who has taken over day-to-day dictatorial duties from his 81-year-old father, "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung, appears determined to build a secret arsenal of nuclear weapons. His government had threatened to quit the 150-nation Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons last Saturday; it had ordered all foreigners except diplomats to leave and barred international inspectors from the country. If the outside world resorted to military force, a senior ! official in Pyongyang...
...Dartmouth can't stop Harvard's Liz Berkery, Sarah Winters, Francie Walton or any of the other weapons in Kleinfelder's loaded arsenal, on the other hand, Holleran and Devens will become irrelevant...
...source talked about Branch Davidians manufacturing live grenades and trying to develop a radio-controlled aircraft to carry explosives. All told, according to documents released last week by the ATF, David Koresh spent $199,715 on weapons and ammunition in the 17 months before the Feb. 28 raid. The arsenal included 123 M-16 rifles and parts necessary for turning semiautomatic rifles into machine guns...
DeGuerin and other lawyers meanwhile have begun planning a defense strategy for the ensuing trials. They will probably claim the protection of the First and Second Amendments for the Davidians' rights to practice even a bizarre religion and to bear even an arsenal of arms. Defense lawyers will also claim the Davidians fired only in self-defense when federal authorities stormed the compound. Four feds and, by Koresh's count, six cultists died...
...missiles. Even "more precarious" and harder to control, says Blair, are 600 nuclear bombs stockpiled in Ukraine that belonged to the former Soviet Union. Ukraine wants security guarantees and aid from the U.S. and Russia before it agrees to give up all its nuclear arsenal...