Word: uzi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buffoon, co-producer Jim Jacks has high hopes for the script by novelist Larry McMurtry (Terms of Endearment). "We'll take on real life as it is today," Jacks promises -- or threatens. "It won't be sensational; they're not going to catch Bud at school with an Uzi. But we'll be looking at very serious problems that must be resolved. It won't be as simple as Princess worrying who's going to take her to the prom...
...campaign did its job; relief workers and refugees agree that much of the most vicious killing was done not by the army but by Hutu death squads, called the interahamwe ("those who attack together"). These are young men in street clothes, armed with anything from a screwdriver to an Uzi to a machete, a dull gleam in their eyes and a whistle around their neck. If one spotted a Tutsi family emerging from hiding and trying to flee, he blew his whistle, and his comrades sealed off any escape. "If you look in their eyes," says Daniel Bellamy...
...Israelis may leave chaos in their wake. Both Palestinians and Israelis say weapons have poured into the Gaza Strip over the past few months. Residents hear shooting every night. Any Gaza City taxi driver is able to quote the going price of M-16 and Glilon automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns...
...number of other ideas with reporters. Environment Minister Yossi Sarid spoke of expelling militant settlers from the territories. Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein advocated completely outlawing Kach, the political party established by Kahane, with which Goldstein was affiliated. The party is already barred from participating in elections. Tourism Minister Uzi Baram suggested disarming Kachniks...
...frightening just how great a stranglehold the NRA has had on our politicians. Congress is now considering the first-ever bill to prohibit the sale or transfer of guns to minors. The Senate version of the crime bill finally blocks the sale of Uzi and 18 other semiautomatic weapons capable of feeding 10 rounds of ammunition. But while it prohibits the further sale and manufacture of these 19 killers, the bill excludes 650 other types of hunting weapons from any type of regulation. And guns which have already been manufactured will remain on the shelves for sale. In addition...