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Nationwide, equally dramatic declines occurred. In 1993 Berkeley, Calif., had 34 licensed dealers; in 1996 it had two. Across the Bay, San Francisco knocked its population of dealers from 155 down to 10. Three-quarters of New York City's dealers gave up their licenses; so did 80% of Detroit...
What effect this had on gun sales is unclear, but there is tantalizing evidence that the disappearance of these dealers contributed to a sharp reduction in handgun sales across America, particularly the cheap handguns sold by Lorcin and its peers in the Ring of Fire...
McCaffery's mission aimed to do just that. At the Tres Esquinas military base, the general visited U.S. military instructors who are training a battalion of Colombian police commandos in antidrug warfare--combat skills that the Colombians use to battle the rebels across the board. Under U.S. law the advisers are forbidden to join the Colombian police on raids, but already their presence has rattled the leftist rebels known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). If the U.S. "intervenes further in Colombia," FARC leaders said last week, "its troops will go home dead or wounded...
...upstate New York. The overflowing Port-o-Sans that no one bothered to empty? The formidable mounds of garbage that no one collected? The rip-off prices--$4 for a bottle of water, $7.50 for a chicken sandwich? In retrospect, it seems odd that rock fans would travel halfway across the country and pay $150 a ticket to be treated worse than illegal Cuban refugees...
...days that followed, it seemed that sexual assault would become the ugliest motif of Woodstock '99. State police confirmed that they were investigating four allegations of rape; of course, they have little hope of finding the rapists, who are by now scattered across the country. There were apparently numerous other incidents of sexual assault. David Schneider, a rehabilitation counselor from Jessup, Md., told the Washington Post that during a performance by the group Korn on the first night, he saw a "very skinny girl, maybe 90 or 100 lbs.," get pushed into the mosh pit, where "a couple of guys...