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...despite the bitter opposition of black legislators. "This is not only facetious but borders on the ludicrous," exclaimed State Representative Avery Alexander. Attempting to derail the bill, Alexander offered a facetious amendment of his own, designating Irish Americans as another minority group. But ridicule can be a dangerous weapon in the Louisiana legislature: the Irish-power amendment almost passed...
Gesell said defendants at criminal trials are "afforded the powerful weapon of cross-examination, an essential part of our adversarial system...
...this frustration was not SDI. Nor did it have much to do with the reduction of strategic ballistic missiles. Instead, the insurmountable final obstacle to an agreement for next week proved to be the dilemma of how a START treaty should deal with a low-flying, slow-flying weapon that barely qualified as strategic. This is the nuclear-armed sea- launched cruise missile, a jet-powered drone that can be fired from a submarine or surface ship at targets on land...
...Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since it did not have multiple warheads. The incident heightened tension between the Administration and Congress, and hastened the day when Congress would insist on playing a more direct role in the formulation of U.S. arms- control policy...
...Soviet-designed "radio-frequency quadropole" device is a crucial element in the neutral-particle-beam weapon on which research is now being ( conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory under the Strategic Defense Initiative program. The device is used to focus and accelerate atomic particles...