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...fact, the weapons industry may be prospering at some expense to the taxpayer. Currently, the Pentagon is permitting Sweden to wiggle through a loophole in U.S. regulations that would require an overseas client to pay a share of a weapon's development. Sweden was willing to pay $300,000 apiece for the U.S. AMRAAM air-to-air missile. However, it balked at the additional $100,000-a-copy development premium for any weapon purchased through the Pentagon. So, with a wink from the Administration, Sweden will buy the missile directly from the manufacturer -- and avoid a contribution...
...principle, it is wrong to use the courts as a political weapon against the legitimate expression of the popular will. Testing the constitutionality of controversial new laws is important in upholding the checks and balances that keep our government functioning. However, constitutionality is not at stake in abolishing rent control, as attested by the fact that Cambridge has been without it in the past. Bringing the law to court in this instance is purely procedural--and political...
...armed with an assault weapon walked into Washington's lightly secured police headquarters, went to the third floor and shot up an office, killing a city detective and two FBI agents. The gunman, Bennie Lee Lawson, also died in the melee, but police were unable to say whether he killed himself or was shot by law officers...
...turned around and saw a burly guy reaching into his pocket, and I thought he could be reaching for a weapon," said Appel. "I was scared and dropped my book and tried to run away...
...every day walking the streets of Boston and New York. He could not address the xenophobia and racism that spawned Proposition 187 in California, or the proliferation of guns on our streets that even a few weeks ago allowed a deranged man to fire 15 shots from an automatic weapon into the White House...