Word: weaponeering
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Things kept hopping for the editorial interns as well. In his first week as a reporter-researcher, Amherst's Bryant Rousseau called a factory near Prague to get some weapon prices and tracked a British arms expert to his home in Upton-upon-Severn. Ronald Amstutz, a photography major at the Rochester Institute of Technology, was made responsible for illustrating the World Notes page and spent much of the summer scrambling to gather pictures from around the globe. One of his final duties: assigning a photographer, picking a site and getting his fellow interns to Brooklyn for the picture that...
...statements Smith can make on his own behalf. If he takes the stand and comments at all on the way he treats women, for example, Lasch would be allowed to call her witnesses to prove he was lying. But if he refuses to testify, the defense loses a powerful weapon. "It really comes down to his word against hers," says Boudreau. "He's an intelligent, well-spoken man who has no prior criminal convictions. From a defense lawyer's viewpoint, he's a dream client." But if he exercises his right not to testify, experts note, it is bound...
...activists' key weapon is the Voting Rights Act, which permits the U.S. Justice Department to veto any districting plan that dilutes the voting strength of minorities. Last week the Justice Department blocked the use of a new redistricting plan for the New York city council on the grounds that it "consistently disfavored" Hispanic voters...
...business of targeting Saddam Hussein," President Bush insisted during Operation Desert Storm. But that did not stop people from weighing the practical and moral aspects of assassination as a weapon in wartime. And according to U.S. military attack plans obtained by TIME last week, it wasn't for lack of trying that American forces failed to kill Saddam during six weeks of unrelenting aerial bombardment. The targeting documents, including some dated Jan. 14, 1991, two days before the bombing began, list the "Baghdad Presidential Palace," the "Taji Presidential Retreat," a few miles north of Baghdad, and the "Abu Ghurayb Presidential...
...days television stations nationwide were replaying the grisly images, provoking a national outcry against police brutality. An inquiry determined that 23 L.A.P.D. officers had appeared on the scene of the beating. Two weeks later a sergeant and three officers were indicted on felony charges, including assault with a deadly weapon...