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	Arms Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arms Crisis was a political scandal in the Republic of Ireland, in which two government ministers from the Fianna Fáil political party were accused of attempting to illegally import £100,000 worth of weapons for the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
		Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance and Neil Blaney, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries were sacked by the Taoiseach Jack Lynch on May 6 1970, over their involvement in the illegal arms smuggling.
		Kevin Boland, the Minister for Social Welfare resigned from the government in protest at the sackings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arms_Crisis (350 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - The UN and the Small Arms Crisis: Preparing to Meet the Challenge
		Obviously, the problem of small arms and light weapons had to be taken up as a disarmament issue, and the First Committee of the General Assembly was the UN body to deal with such disarmament issues.
		The term "on the illicit arms trade" in the title of the conference was changed to "on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons", but the expression "in all its aspects" was retained.
		On the issue of scope, the Group noted that "much of the trade in small arms and light weapons consists of legal transfers to meet the legitimate needs of states for self defence", and that "the principle of the legitimacy of such legal trade should be respected at the conference" (Paragraph 124).
	www.acronym.org.uk /49unarms.htm (3223 words)

	UNICEF - UNICEF in emergencies - Small arms
		The use of small arms in conflicts has scarred and traumatised generations of children, both physically and emotionally.
		The Spread of small arms creates a serious global problem and requires an equally urgent response because the lives and future of children are at stake.
		Small arms and light weapons are used in internal conflicts, crime and violence.
	www.unicef.org /emerg/index_smallarms.html (866 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues (1985)
		Crisis stability, on the other hand, is achieved by eliminating the incentive for either side to launch a preemptive counterforce attack in an effort to obtain military advantage by significantly blunting the other side's capacity to retaliate.
		Crisis stability, or the reduction of the risk of nuclear war in a crisis, can be increased by measures that assure the survival and effectiveness of retaliatory strategic forces in the face of a preemptive counterforce attack.
		Thus, a successful arms control re- gime could be a major factor in gradually reducing the political tension and distrust that have intensified the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309034914/html/1.html (8557 words)

	Accra Daily Mail - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Small arms remain the primary weapons of intra and inter-communal feuds, local wars, armed insurrections, armed rebel activities and terrorism throughout the region.
		In addition, small arms have been used to grossly violate human rights, to facilitate the practice of bad governance, to subvert constitutions, to carry out coup d'états and to create and maintain a general state of fear, insecurity and instability.
		As part of the Week of Action, the Ghana Action Network on Small Arms (GHANSA), is calling on all governments in the region to declare their support for a global Arms Trade Treaty and to put in effect national mechanisms that would help achieve the goals of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms.
	www.accra-mail.com /mailnews.asp?id=13124 (621 words)

	British American Security Information Council
		Arms brokering and shipping agents have shown themselves to be capable of operating regardless of the existence of UN, EU or other arms embargoes.
		Where an arms embargo is agreed at national, regional or international level, but the terms are not clearly set out by participant states in their domestic law, experienced arms brokering or shipping agents will find ways to continue their operations, arranging the transfer of arms to the embargoed country.
		Arms brokering licences issued by the German government are subject to the same level of scrutiny as an arms export licence and there is a close alignment between export policy and policy regarding brokering supplies through third countries.
	www.basicint.org /WT/smallarms/1999feb-gun-runners.htm (5029 words)

	Financial Crisis Slows Arms Race in Asia
		Arms exports, which are strictly controlled by the State Department, are expected to reach $14 billion to $16 billion, of which no more than a quarter are headed to Asia.
		Advocates of arms control have sharply criticized the Asian arms buildup, as well as Washington's eagerness to supply it, saying the rush to modernize could destabilize the region by stoking lingering fears and dormant hostilities.
		And he and his aides have tried to play down the impact the economic crisis was having on arms sales, saying the administration's main priority was to restore economic stability generally, even if that meant a temporary retrenchment in sales.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/financial/011398asia-arms.html (1091 words)

	Shattered Lives: The case for tough international arms control - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Arms are used arbitrarily and indiscriminately to kill or injure, to threaten people and drive them from their homes; the flow of arms enables and sustains conflicts in which civilian casualties mount.
		Arms are frequently used for direct violations of the rights to life and to physical and mental integrity, but they are also the means through which coercion can be brought to bear to perpetrate any number of other abuses.
		Armed violence prompts skilled staff and educated people to flee, and financial investment to be withdrawn, depressing economic activity, with particularly onerous impacts upon the landless and urban poor.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engact300012003 (13225 words)

	Latin American Regional Small Arms Consultation: Final Statement
		The Latin American ecumenical consultation on small arms calls on churches to renew their commitment to addressing, as a matter of urgency, the problems of violence in Latin American society and, in particular, to addressing issues of armed violence and the diffusion and misuse of small arms in their societies.
		Arms production facilities within the region contribute to the diffusion of small arms and, in addition, the region has a legacy of large stocks of weapons, accumulated during the Cold War period, which now circulate within countries and throughout the region.
		The problem of armed violence and the diffusion of small arms in Latin America cannot be effectively addressed without the involvement of the churches of the region.
	wcc-coe.org /wcc/what/international/brazilfinal.html (2027 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: A Strategy for Defusing
		Faced with this crisis, which is in part of its own making, the Bush administration has been unable to craft an effective response.
		The initial Chinese reaction to the current crisis was to resurrect almost the exact same language used after the North Korean action in 1993: Beijing emphasized its interest in a non-nuclear peninsula while advocating a peaceful resolution of the problem.
		Given the current crisis, the top priority for such an agreement should be verifying the end of North Korea’s nuclear weapons-related activities through IAEA inspections, removing North Korea’s spent fuel, and dismantling its plutonium-based programs.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2003_01-02/wit_janfeb03.asp (4729 words)

	Irish Chiefs: An Irish Arms Crisis
		In the case of the latter it is noted that the function exercised today by the Chief Herald in issuing coats of arms descends directly from the Crown's prerogative as the fountain of all honours and dignities.
		The clause vesting copyright in coats of arms in the Board of the Library is puzzling, as surely if grants of arms are made and fees accepted for same, full ownership should lie with the grantees, and indeed this provision might be deemed to be in conflict with consumer rights.
		Retrospective recognition of grants and confirmations of arms by the Genealogical Office/Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland from 1943 until 2003, and recognition of grants and confirmations by Ulster King of Arms prior to 1943, with the exception of entries shown to be based on false information.
	homepage.eircom.net /~seanjmurphy/chiefs/armscrisis.htm (3348 words)

	UNDP - United Nations Development Programme — Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Failure to come to grips with the small arms crisis will perpetuate cycles of violence and conflict could jeopardize efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Summit target of halving world poverty by 2015.
		Steps to curb demand for small arms include conflict prevention, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, helping communities improve education and livelihoods to provide constructive alternatives to violence and conflict, and promoting democratization and the rule of law.
		The UNDP Trust Fund for the Reduction of Small Arms Proliferation is playing an important role in aiding practical initiatives to reduce small arms proliferation, Mr.
	www.undp.org /bcpr/smallarms/news/19mar2001.htm (521 words)

	Irish Examiner - Opinion - 03, January, 2001
		He warned that the manner in which the arms were being purchased had “grave implications for the military and State security”.
		Jim Gibbons admitted at the Arms Trial that he was aware of the plans to import the weapons.
		On the morning that the arms crisis erupted, Lynch was supremely confident when he was asked by Kevin O’Kelly of RTE if he was confident of victory.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/2001/January/3/current/opinionpage_2.htm (1131 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Loyalist warning over arms crisis
		In the article he said that every time the issue of arms decommissioning is returned too, it became harder to deal with.
		A suspension of the assembly is designed to prevent the First Minister and leader of the Ulster Unionists, David Trimble, from resigning and collapsing the process.
		He said: "I know the IRA does not react well to deadlines set by others, but if that is at the root of the crisis then I think this is as bad as it would be if they had only appointed an interlocutor as a bluff.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/northern_ireland/635812.stm (436 words)

	ipedia.com: Charles Haughey Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Haughey was controversially dismissed from the Cabinet in 1970 for allegedly attempting to import arms for use in Northern Ireland.
		In 1970 he was accused, along with Neil Blaney, of illegally importing arms with the purpose of supplying them to Nationalists.
		In May 1970 Haughey was arrested for conspiring to import arms illegally.
	www.ipedia.com /charles_haughey.html (1686 words)

	U.S. Intelligence System In "crisis" -- Former Arms Inspector David Kay
		WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (AFP) - Former arms inspector David Kay on Wednesday painted a dire portrait of the state of US intelligence, saying the infrastructure is so broken that even the appointment of an national intelligence czar was not likely to fix it.
		"The US intelligence community is in a crisis, and this crisis is so grave that it weakens an essential underpinning of both our diplomatic and our national military security capabilities and their ability to support US national interests," Kay said at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
		"If this crisis is to be resolved, it will require an effort at least as great as that that went into creating the intelligence community, in the most dire part of the Cold War," he said.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=24866 (419 words)

	The Sparta Expositor:Open Arms raises over $3,200 with local fundraiser
		Kathryn Jones, director of Open Arms, was excited about the generosity and participation of local church congregations.
		The money raised by Open Arms will be used to fund the abstinence program the center sponsors at White County High School and to help replenish baby supplies at the center.
		Open Arms Crisis Pregnancy Center is sponsored by local church and organizations, including Agape Sunday School Class at Bear Cove Baptist, Calvary Baptist and Crossroads Episcopal.
	www.spartaexpositor.com /newsdetail.asp?ArticleID=560 (517 words)

	RTE News - Papers released under 30-year-rule discuss arms crisis
		State papers released under the 30-year-rule have thrown more light on the arms crisis.
		According to military records, the Minister for Defence, Jim Gibbons told the army in February 1970, that it was Government policy to arm Catholics in the North.
		Meanwhile, British cabinet papers released for the first time today reveal the growing concern of the British Government at the potential for increased violence in the North as the marching season got underway in 1970.
	www.rte.ie /news/2001/0101/armscrisis.html (136 words)

	Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Confronting Ambiguity: How to Handle North Korea's Nuclear Program
		The current crisis began in October 2002, when U.S. officials confronted North Korea with evidence of a uranium-enrichment program, which is a second path to the development of nuclear weapons.
		As the crisis has escalated, the Bush administration has continued to refuse to negotiate directly with North Korea until it dismantles its uranium-enrichment program.
		16 The U.S. refusal to negotiate, not North Korean actions, is being blamed for the escalation of the crisis.
	www.armscontrol.org /act/2003_03/saunders_mar03.asp (4929 words)

	Arianna Online Forums - US intelligence system in "crisis" -- former arms inspector David Kay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		WASHINGTON : Former arms inspector David Kay offered a bleak assessment of the state of US intelligence, saying that even naming a intelligence czar was not likely to fix the problems unless other significant reforms are undertaken.
		Kay, who resigned in January as the head of the Iraq Survey Group tasked with hunting down Baghdad's alleged weapons of mass destruction program, said the US intelligence network was in a full-blown crisis, and pointed to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons program as evidence.
		He added: "If this crisis is to be resolved, it will require an effort at least as great as that that went into creating the intelligence community, in the most dire part of the Cold War,"
	www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8999 (1196 words)

	The Sparta Expositor:2006 brings new beginning for Open Arms
		Barbara Lancaster, director of Open Arms Crisis Pregnancy Center, strives to make a difference in the lives of White County’s youth.
		Barbara Lancaster has been named the new director of Open Arms Crisis Pregnancy Center and replaces Kathryn Jones who had been at the helm five years.
		Lancaster said she would love to completely solve the problem of unwed pregnancies, ultimately forcing Open Arms “out of business,” although it is a not-for-profit organization.
	www.spartaexpositor.com /businessdetail.asp?ArticleID=217 (704 words)

	About IANSA
		World attention is increasingly focused on the humanitarian impact of these weapons, and IANSA brings together the voices and activities of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and concerned individuals across the world to prevent their deadly effects.
		IANSA is composed of a wide range of organisations concerned with small arms, including policy development organisations, national gun control groups, research institutes, aid agencies, faith groups, victims, human rights and community action organisations.
		IANSA will raise and maintain the profile of the small arms crisis by assisting in the development of advocacy and public education campaigns regionally and internationally.
	www.iansa.org /about.htm (746 words)

	Clinton calls for aid to end N.Korea arms crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The project is based on a 1994 pact agreed during Clinton's administration.
		Under that deal, the North Koreans agreed to freeze their nuclear arms programme in return for two light-water reactors, fuel oil shipments and food supplies.
		The United States initially sent fuel oil to meet immediate energy needs, but stopped those deliveries a year ago after the United States announced in October last year that the North had a secret uranium enrichment project in violation of the 1994 pact.
	united-states-of-earth.com /article.asp?MenuID=1242 (405 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| NI arms crisis deepens
		The UK government has begun moves towards suspending Northern Ireland's fledgling executive as last minute efforts continue to salvage the peace process.
		Notably in the case of the IRA, it has to be clear that decommissioning is going to happen.
		Meanwhile, Irish premier Bertie Ahern has held a crisis summit with Prime Minister Tony Blair at a hotel in St Austell, in Cornwall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/629962.stm (828 words)

	International Trade in Arms and Military Training: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns
		The Colombian Armed Forces continue to be implicated in the indiscriminate killings of members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó and Afro-Colombian communities.
		Recognizing that it is not only the international sale of arms that kills innocent people, AI is not solely concerned about the international sale of arms that are used to violate human rights.
		The Control Arms Campaign also calls on all governments to enact careful regulation of domestic, or local, firearms sales in order to ensure to the greatest extent possible that people in their country are not harmed by gun violence.
	www.amnestyusa.org /arms_trade/index.do (516 words)

	Aids for Understanding the Conflict in Nepal
		pronged" international response to the armed insurgency in Nepal: i) massive funding to security forces renowned for gross human rights violations in order to suppress the insurgency to the point where, ii) the failed development policies of past decades can be retrenched and intensified.
		This is a recipe for disaster not resolution; a recipe for another interminable civil war that gains occasional brief notice in the Western media while destroying the lives and futures of millions day by day, year by year.
		When arms have been taken up against the state tremendous pressure to takes sides ensues.
	www.angelfire.com /empire2/nepal/jankari.html (728 words)

	IANSA: West Africa
		With an estimated eight million firearms in the region, West Africa is struggling to survive ongoing conflicts in which small arms play a central and destabilizing role.
		Small arms remain the primary weapons of intra- and inter-communal feuds, local wars, armed insurrections, armed rebel activities and terrorism throughout the region.
		WAANSA serves as a forum for the exchange of information, views, experiences and strategies in combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in West Africa; works for the reduction of demand for small arms and light weapons in the region; and provides solidarity to all those who work on small arms issues.
	www.iansa.org /regions/wafrica/wafrica.htm (735 words)

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