Word: weaponeering
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That group has become one of the most powerful lobbies at the Capitol, if only to oppose every form of gun control that the Congress enacts. Far from an association of rifle-owners, the NRA has become the National Handgun, Assault Weapon and Federal Lobbyist Association...
...validity of his confession, however, is heatedly disputed -- no small matter since police have no witnesses, no weapon, not even a fingerprint, to further link Davis to the Biebel case. The police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of death. Now, a coalition of Illinois activists-among them a former Chicago police chief, a retired judge, author Studs Terkel and several prosecutors-is scrambling to rescue Davis from execution by lethal injection this Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. at the Menard Correctional Center...
...United States and other nations should not provide Iran with nuclear knowhow in the foreseeable future. A state with such a recent history of sponsoring terrorism has the potential to hold the world hostage if it acquires nuclear weapon technology...
...suspect, who was later identified as John T. Knudsen, was placed under arrest for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon--the pool...
Citing concerns that Iraq may be concealing materials that could be used in biological warfare, the U.N. Security Council agreed to continue economic sanctions against the country. France and Russia had called for the ending of sanctions if Iraq cooperated with U.N. officials overseeing the elimination of the Iraqi weapon supply. But chief U.N. weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus reported that 17 tons of material that could be used to grow biological warfare germs remain unaccounted for, along with chemicals that could make 200 tons of nerve...