Word: weaponeering
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...Shelton has not shied away from tactics that implicitly criticize Pentagon routine. While many Chairmen have been tankers, pilots and ship drivers--and were eager to embrace whatever new weapon came along--Shelton, as commander of the famed 82nd Airborne in 1993, raised eyebrows by scrapping the division's fleet of high-powered AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships in favor of more reliable but modest OH-58 Kiowas. Shelton's career went into high gear in Haiti in 1994, when he cut short the U.S. invasion, turned back the bombers and transformed himself from warrior to a diplomat, ousting Raoul...
...substantially reduced risk for developing the cancer that kills 15,000 women in the U.S. each year. But while pregnancies and birth control pills, which lower ovulation histories, appear to provide the surest means of slashing the risk for developing ovarian cancer, such defenses are far from a practical weapon. Without an effective screening test, ovarian cancer looks set to remain a brutally efficient killer...
...what Corso says the military calls EBEs, or extraterrestrial biological entities. Fortunately, it turns out, Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative tipped the balance of power. As Corso writes, "[The U.S. and U.S.S.R.] both knew who the real targets of SDI were... When we deployed our advanced particle-beam weapon and tested it in orbit for all to see, the EBEs knew and we knew that they knew that we had our defense of the planet in place...
...help of several Afghanis near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was immediately flown by helicopter to the Fairfax County jail to await arraignment, expected to take place today. He faces charges on two counts of capital murder, three counts of assault and one count of illegal possession of a weapon. If convicted he could face the death penalty. Kansi allegedly killed two CIA employees and wounded three others outside the agency's Langley Headquarters in 1993 with an AK-47 assault rifle as they idled in heavy morning traffic. Authorities believe he acted alone and was not connected with a terrorist...
After the Denver jury found McVeigh guilty last Monday of all 11 crimes with which he had been charged, the case entered the penalty phase, in which the jurors must decide whether McVeigh deserves to be executed. All the offenses--conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of a weapon of mass destruction, destruction by an explosive and the murder of eight federal law-enforcement agents--carry the possible penalty of death. Questions about the morality of the death penalty itself are moot, since in order to join the panel, the jurors had to say they were capable...