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...Saudi Arabia despite that country's long history of brutalizing prisoners. American firms must obtain a Commerce Department license to export shock weapons to most countries, and officials say the applications are closely screened to block the items from falling into the hands of human-rights abusers. Yet Air Taser has been negotiating to supply thousands of electric-shock riot shields for crowd control to police in Turkey, where torture is "widespread," according to State Department human-rights reports. South Africa's new CMax prison for hardened criminals is considering buying Stun Tech's shock belt over the protests...
...There are ways to get around" the controls, admits Commerce Under Secretary William Reinsch. A license isn't required for exports to NATO countries in Europe, where U.S. stun guns can be reshipped elsewhere. Air Taser has arranged for manufacturing facilities in Russia, Mexico and Taiwan to produce its weapons. Their export from those countries doesn't require U.S. approval...
...shooting him with a handgun, which can cause more severe injuries. Indeed, law agencies in the U.S. have used stun guns thousands of times, and there have been relatively few documented cases of serious injuries. "These devices don't kill people," insists Nova's president, John McDermit. Rick Smith, Air Taser's president, has launched a publicity campaign to rebut Amnesty's charges. In restricting stun guns "that could save lives, we're actually degrading human rights," he argues...
...camp of John F. Kennedy; in Arlington, Mass. Powers joined congressional candidate Kennedy in 1946 and stayed with him all the way to the White House and beyond. Powers was riding in the presidential motorcade the day Kennedy was shot, and he accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy on the flight of Air Force One back to Washington. At one point she turned to him and said, "Oh, Dave, you've been with him all these years. What will you do now?" The answer was to continue to serve, as a companion to the young Kennedy children and as curator of the John...
John and Patsy Ramsey have broken their long silence on the murder of their daughter JonBenet and are talking at length to a London production company that plans to air an hour-long documentary on Britain's Channel 4. Producer David Mills is also discussing a deal that will get the show aired in the U.S. Mills and his partner, University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey, bill the interview as a no-holds-barred session, in which no questions went unanswered. If so, this will be remarkable, given the Ramseys' reluctance to talk to anyone, including the Boulder, Colo...