Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon is getting ready to protect wives like LaFrancis from their armed husbands. The story of how this came to be is partly about unintended consequences and partly about how the values of the civilian world are increasingly encroaching on the military. Last fall Congress passed a wide-ranging law meant to combat domestic violence in all corners of American society by banning weapons from those convicted of such crimes. So sometime next month the Pentagon plans to begin enforcing the law in its own ranks by stripping weapons from hundreds, if not thousands, of military personnel. Anyone...
...broad that by year's end the military may have to bar those convicted of familial violence from operating weapons like M-1 tanks, F-16 jet fighters and MX missiles, among others. And nothing is simple at the Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm" under the final policy, a pilot convicted of domestic abuse could no longer carry the requisite 9-mm pistol--and thus could no longer...
...times, Nichols seemed to be trying to protect his friend McVeigh. "I cannot see why he would do it," the summary quotes him as saying. Nichols also said that on April 18 he and McVeigh attended a weapons auction. That is the date that eyewitnesses at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, say McVeigh apparently left with the Ryder truck used in the bombing. However, Nichols made much more significant statements about McVeigh that were very damaging. On April 16, Nichols and McVeigh drove from Oklahoma City to Herington together. The agents asked Nichols if McVeigh had said anything...
...They take a lot of time, so we wouldn't want to do this," he said. "It's a distraction from what we're really here to do." He claims that the law suit was filed to protect customers...
...from the North long enough to reinforce the South. So U.S. negotiators in Oslo asked the drafters of the treaty for exceptions that would, in effect, allow the U.S. to use such mines in Korea for 19 more years and would exempt antipersonnel weapons when they are used to protect antitank mines. This last-ditch wiggling from Washington got nowhere, and 89 countries approved the ban, which is to be signed in Ottawa in December...