Word: pakistan
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While the bank is shut down in most countries, B.C.C.I. is still operating in Pakistan and Switzerland, as well as in Zambia and Zimbabwe. In other countries, individuals or entities with close ties to the old B.C.C.I. seem to be buying up the bank's branches. At the same time, several Middle Eastern banks are taking over the bank's role as a promoter of weapons deals, sources have told TIME...
That may be extreme, but all other measures are fully justified. Until recently, nonproliferation efforts achieved considerable success. Membership in the nuclear club has held steady for about a decade (Pakistan entered but South Africa dropped out); such nations as Taiwan and South Korea, in addition to Brazil and Argentina, ended once flourishing nuclear programs; France, Germany and Argentina became much more discriminating in the kind of nuclear technology they would approve for sale and to whom. But all this progress could be easily reversed. The thought of North Korea's Stalinist regime brandishing atom bombs, for instance, could easily...
FOOTNOTE: *Declared nuclear powers: the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, France, China. Undeclared but known: Israel, India, Pakistan...
...Beijing's seeming willingness to sell weaponry and nuclear equipment to almost any state with the cash to pay for it. China has delivered missiles to Pakistan, contracted to sell missiles to Syria and is cooperating on nuclear technology with Iran and Algeria. Though China says it is supplying items for peaceful nuclear programs, the recipients can use them for any purpose they choose, and their likely intention is to build atom bombs. The U.S. demands a halt...
...years. But the poinsettia strain, so named because it first appeared in the U.S. on poinsettia plants in Florida greenhouses, reproduces twice as fast as its relatives and consumes five times as much food from its victims. It comes originally from somewhere halfway around the world, possibly Iraq or Pakistan, and apparently reached America in 1986, probably hidden away in a cargo shipment...