Word: weaponeering
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...some great saint who had visions from God but rather an ordinary person who's just right to be an action-adventure hero." --SCREENWRITER LAETA KALOGRIDIS, ON THE SUBJECT OF HER NEW SCRIPT, IN NOMINE DEI, WHICH WAS SOLD LAST WEEK TO PRODUCER JOEL SILVER (LETHAL WEAPON) FOR A REPORTED...
...houses will be around awhile, and so will the controversy. Lane began the weapon sweeps in 1988, restricted them a year later to cases involving "immediate threat" after negotiating a court-ordered consent decree with the ACLU, then resumed them after armed gang members chased away repair crews dispatched by the housing authority from a project last August. That led to the restraining order that Judge Andersen has turned into an injunction. Lane says he will respect that ruling -- for now. But "if the circumstances that existed two weeks ago, when we heard 300 shots, exist again, I will search...
...squads during the overnight curfews since the Feb. 25 Hebron massacre. Two weeks ago, an Israeli undercover unit shot dead six Fatah Hawks -- an armed group loyal to the P.L.O. -- in the Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli army apologized for the shooting -- not because the Palestinians, who were carrying weapons, were shot without warning, but because they were Arafat's men. "If they had been Hamas members, we would have been justified in killing them," contended an Israeli military source. "I.D.F. soldiers have orders to shoot to kill anyone carrying a weapon. You don't fire warning shots...
...DIPLOmacy are cloaked in riddles -- especially when their results are likely to embarrass or anger. Jetting back from his recent trip to the countries of the former Soviet Union, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry trumpeted the Clinton Administration's continuing success in weaning Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine from nuclear weapons. But when the conversation turned to North Korea, the Secretary spoke with less clarity. "Our policy right along," he said, "has been oriented to try to keep North Korea from getting a significant nuclear-weapon capability...
...well with either out-of-power Republicans or arms-control purists. "The consequences around the world will be disastrous," predicts Brent Scowcroft, President Bush's National Security Adviser. The U.S., he says, should go to war, if necessary, to prevent North Korea from obtaining even a single atomic weapon. "A small number of nuclear weapons is not fundamentally a military weapon, but a terror weapon designed to intimidate," says Scowcroft. "So the difference between an insignificant number and a significant number may defy close analysis...