Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although MAC sales are now regulated, the Government can do little about the thousands of guns sold under the old classification. Declaring that the MAC "serves no purpose except to kill people," Democratic Congressman Robert Torricelli of New Jersey has introduced legislation that would make it a crime to possess a readily convertible firearm such as the MAC-10. The National Rifle Association considers such legislation a restriction of constitutional rights, but groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns see it as imperative. Says the coalition's executive director Michael Beard: "There's no legitimate sporting grounds...
...spread of nuclear technology over the past four decades is both an impressive and a daunting achievement. Five countries formally possess nuclear weapons (the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China); India's 1974 test explosion shows that it has at least mastered the capacity to build them. All told, about 345 commercial nuclear power reactors are in operation in 26 countries, and some 52 nations have nuclear research facilities. At least eleven nations possess facilities for the reprocessing of nuclear fuels, all yielding varying amounts of plutonium. Large enrichment facilities to turn uranium into nuclear fuel, or bomb...
...ambiguous status known as having "a bomb in the basement" is Israel. The Israelis probably developed an atomic weapon as early as 1968, in all likelihood using reprocessed plutonium from their top-secret, French-built research reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert. By 1973, Israel was believed to possess at least 13 nuclear weapons...
...demonstration threw a small wrench in some of the illusions students possess, that somehow "their University" crisis in a vacuum, outside the social realities of decaying capitalist society. What we must realize is that ins this University is part and parcel of the whole racist system...
...should be noted, however, that each of those losses was closely contested and that the spikers do possess the talent to play up to East Stroudsburg's caliber of volleyball...