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Senator Sam Nunn has revealed that the Aum Shinri Kyo cult once tried to buy materials to make nuclear and chemical weapons. Nunn, ranking minority member of the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations, told the New York Times that before the deadly nerve gas attack in Tokyo last March, the Japanese group had recruited two Russian nuclear scientists and tried to buy a $500,000 laser system that could have been used to measure plutonium. The sect, whose leader faces murder charges as a result of the subway attack, had also tried to buy 400 Israeli-made gas masks...
...turning off their television sets. And, to me, it seems that is a legitimate tactic." Bennett, a former Secretary of Education who is co-director of the conservative think tank Empower America, was joined at a news conference in Washington, D.C. by Democratic Senators Joe Lieberman and Sam Nunn. The group showed clips they deemed offensive on shows hosted by Sally Jessy Raphael, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer and Charles Perez. The Oprah Winfrey Show was singled out as an example of acceptable programming...
...NUNN MAKES IT EIGHT...
Democrats lost their most powerful voice on national defense matters, as well as a respected member of their once formidable but now rapidly shrinking Southern delegation. Saying he lacks the "zest and enthusiasm" for a fifth term, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia announced he would step down at the end of next year--the eighth Senate Democrat to call it quits and bow out of next year's elections...
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) -- two of Washington's most steadfast deficit hawks -- today proposed legislation to permit Americans to deduct every dollar they save and invest. The plan, asimplification of the tax codealong the lines of the Individual Retirement Account, arrives just as federal income tax reform is shaping up as a major issue in the1996 presidential election. GOP senators and White House hopefulsRichard Lugar of IndianaandArlen Specter of Pennsylvaniahave already embraced a "flat tax," andBob Doleis thinking it over...