Word: weaponeering
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...private, McNally has provided his services to the defense of Patty Hearst, Bernhard Goetz and John Gotti. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey, who is also part of the Simpson team, has tapped McNally's services regularly, as have other top attorneys. "He's the defense lawyer's ultimate secret weapon," says a high-ranking member of the N.Y.P.D. "The only dark side of his life is that he's in the business of keeping people out of jail who should be in jail...
...conference in peaceful Switzerland to hear a lecture by Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel prizewinning physicist who headed Hitler's atom-bomb project. Berg's orders were to shoot the scientist if it became apparent that the Nazis were close to producing a nuclear weapon. Berg did not know enough physics or German to be sure whether or not he should shoot, and he didn't. The genius who formulated the uncertainty principle proved to be an incompetent administrator, so his continued service to the Reich probably benefited the Allies...
...leader Dole is reluctant to use. He fears it will anger voters who want a vote on health care, not a procedural coup de grace. As G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff warns, if reform dies on the floor, "Republicans have to be careful to keep our fingerprints off the murder weapon." The real threat to the Mitchell plan comes from Democrats and their supporters on both left and right. Clinton's endorsement horrified House Democrats still committed to a bill that provides faster universal coverage, like the one introduced in the House two weeks ago by Democratic majority leader Dick Gephardt...
...however, was not going to tolerate the behavior, and on Friday evening NATO attack planes penetrated the thick cloud cover over Bosnia, trained their Gatling guns on a Serb motorized antitank weapon and blasted it with at least 600 rounds of ammunition. The mobile weapon, which was destroyed, was not among the arms purloined in the Serbs' morning raid. But the target was one of dozens of large Serb guns that have been spotted around Sarajevo, in clear violation of the U.N.-imposed heavy-weapons exclusion zone that has kept the Bosnian capital virtually free of shelling since February...
...pessimistic 10th International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Yokohama, Japan, with the familiar warning that prevention is the only weapon to fight the spread of the worldwide epidemic. To that end, public health officials predict 20 billion condoms will be needed in the next decade. Currently in the U.S. 562 million condoms are sold annually. Some 17 million people are believed to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS...