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...support its defense forces in the 1990s. When a tentative deal was first reached last November, the project drew heavy fire from officials within the Commerce Department, who contended that the U.S. would reveal so much advanced aviation technology to Japanese defense contractors that they could develop a civilian aircraft industry that would compete with such U.S. producers as Boeing and McDonnell Douglas...
...imposed a ban on the importation of five different types of semi-automatic rifles, pending a review to determine whether the guns have a real sporting purpose or are used primarily to kill people. The next day Colt Industries suspended commercial sales of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the civilian copy of the military's M-16. In California the 80-member state assembly voted by a narrow margin (41 to 38) to outlaw the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic weapons, a move that could inspire two dozen other state legislatures considering similar bans. It was a stunning triple play...
Cochrane and Williams will file a written complaint with Johnson today and plan to submit a complaint to the city's Police Review and Advisory Board Thursday, they said. The board, which has the power to subpoena officers, is a civilian committee that monitors the Cambridge Police department and can make recommendations for further action to the city manager...
...east of Santa Ana, in Usulutan province, the E.R.P. has consolidated its hold on another mountainous corridor, populated by nearly 200,000 peasants. Three years ago, the insurgents there were under frequent military attack. Civilian support was minimal. Today government troops dare only sporadic attacks, and they are frequently beaten back by peasant militias fighting alongside regular combatants. "We have established political control over the area," says "Raul," the rebel commander, "and now we are moving toward military control as well." He and other guerrilla leaders have lately obtained AK-47 assault rifles. They say the guns were bought from...
Peasant support is crucial to the kind of rural-based war the F.M.L.N. is fighting. The impoverished farmers of Usulutan, for example, supply the rebels with food, information and labor. Says a civilian supporter in Santa Ana: "The moment a soldier asks you the whereabouts of the guerrillas, and you lie and say you don't know, from that moment you are collaborating with the guerrillas. And there are thousands of us like that...