Word: weaponeering
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...this past Saturday, the dishonorably discharged Francisco Duran, whipped out the semiautomatic weapon from his tan trenchcoat, pumping approximately two dozen rounds into the White House. While bullets pierced the West Wing's concrete and glass, President Clinton sat upstairs watching football on television...
...case is now before a judge. On July 11, Cole pleaded not guilty to two felonies: larceny inside a building as well as assault and battery with a deadly weapon--his teeth...
...start sharing patrols with them. The Americans were to begin collecting ammunition from the Haitian army and have started addressing the problem of the irregular attaches the army used as neighborhood enforcers. To encourage them to give up their guns, the U.S. will pay the attaches $50 for each weapon turned in. One American official characterizes this process of remaking the military as "arms control, not disarmament...
Just when Democrats thought they had at least one sure election-year issue, Senate Republicans summoned their 1994 weapon of choice -- the filibuster threat -- to shoot down a campaign-finance-reform bill. "The system stinks," majority leader George Mitchell complained after a vote to close debate on the measure failed 52-46, far short of the 60 needed to forestall a G.O.P. walkout. The bill would have put a new $6,000-per-election-cycle cap on money political-action committees could funnel to a congressional candidate. But Republicans argued that another provision, federal matching money for challengers, amounted...
JOHNSON: "I and all the officials of the American government worked with every weapon at our command to ((restore peace...