And yet, Gorbachev has clearly indicated his intentions: If he has his way, the central authorities will retain control over critical economic and political decision-making evidently by presidential decree and possibly force of arms, if necessary.

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And yet, Gorbachev has clearly indicated his intentions: If he has his way, the central authorities will retain control over critical economic and political decision-making -- evidently by presidential decree and possibly force of arms, if necessary.

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It is this radical interpretation of Islam and its ideology which demonizes nonbelievers and creates an exclusivist community that poses an all too real danger and cannot be defeated by force of arms alone.

CNN: The appeal of Islamic radicalism

Competition will force Poland to reform industries owned or protected by the state, such as energy, farming and arms.

ECONOMIST: Poland

The generals, for their part, had grown alarmed by Chinese shipments to Indonesia of small arms under an agreement between leftist Air Force commander Omar Dhani and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

CNN: RELIVING THE DAYS OF THE COUP

Would I, I hear you ask, actually prefer it if arms exporters and their political sales force dropped all the indirection and cut straight to the chase by admitting freely that weaponry is nothing more or less than the extension of diplomacy by potentially violent means?

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