Word: weaponeering
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...President can call a special session of Congress. But this year, fearing that Bush might go on the offensive during their two-month recess, the lawmakers authorized Senate majority leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Tom Foley to reconvene the legislature "as necessary." While Mitchell enjoys having that weapon, he has no great desire for a debate on the Persian Gulf -- as long as Bush recognizes that only Congress has the constitutional authority to declare war. For his part, Bush does acknowledge Congress's right to declare war, but he has said that "history is replete with examples where...
...object of derision to boot. In her song Sensitive New Age Guys, singer Christine Lavin lampoons, "Who carries the baby on his back? Who thinks Shirley MacLaine is on the inside track?" Now it's goodbye, Alan Alda; hello, Mel Gibson, with your sensitive eyes and your lethal weapon. Hi there, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the devoted family man with terrific triceps. The new surge of tempered macho is everywhere. Even the male dummies in store windows are getting tougher. Pucci Manikins is producing a more muscular model for the new decade that stands 6 ft. 2 in. instead...
...stage in regional arms races is approaching. One reason Western governments are determined to deal with the threat from Iraq is that Saddam Hussein is only a few years away from developing nuclear weapons and accurate medium-range missiles to deliver them. The British TV network Channel 4 reported last week that Baghdad may have discovered uranium in northeastern Iraq and may already be operating an enrichment plant there. If the report is true, Saddam is poised to develop a nuclear weapon sooner than most experts have predicted...
...taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR). Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, was using an unusual weapon: the common-law principle of "vicarious liability," most frequently invoked against employers for their workers' negligence. Simply put, Dees and his fellow lawyers sue national racist organizations on behalf of the families of victims of violent acts, charging that the organizations should incur heavy civil penalties for their indirect role...
...anti-Saddam coalition. Certainly Saddam was doing his best to pull them into his orbit by exploiting the calamity in Jerusalem. The Iraqi President threatened to avenge the Palestinian deaths with powerful missiles he claimed to have added to his arsenal. Calling his new device the "Stone" (after the weapon of preference in the intifadeh), Saddam boasted that it had a range of hundreds of miles and could therefore hit "the targets of evil when the day of reckoning comes...