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...weapons buy security? For many Third World nations, arms may well deter external aggression, but even the best-equipped troops of an unpopular regime are unlikely to hold off forever a domestic revolution. Witness Iran or Nicaragua. Thomas Barger, a former president of Aramco Oil and a director of Northrop, points out the evident danger: "When you get a lot of playthings, how long is it before you want to try them...
...Conservative faction argued that federal legislation will not decrease crime or deter criminals. "Those who want to kill will kill anyway," Cooper said...
...firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles of reaction ary rule...
...Nurtis Sliwa, a man who many say is as interested in press conferences as he is in justice, the Angels claim they deter crime merely by their presence. Though it would be hard to prove this assertion, it seems reasonable that subway passengers would at least feel more secure, if not actually be more secure, under the Angels' watchful eyes. Yet as they spread out to Boston and elsewhere, Sliwa's troops have implicitly broadened their self-appointed mandate. Here, they have promised to patrol streets in dangerous neighborhoods, particularly in areas known for severe racial tension. Encouraged by excessive...
...plane's dismal record, however, does not deter Frederick Smith, 37, who in 1973 risked a personal inheritance of $3.5 million to launch Federal Express. Smith believes the Concorde's revenues could more than double if he converted it from passenger to package service. Says he optimistically: "It is a potentially lucrative venture." If Smith is right, the Concorde may eventually become more than just a winged white elephant...