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...Indian soldiers and policemen in the streets, Srinagar is enemy territory. At every major crossing, they huddle around sandbag bunkers. They never know when a young man might dash up, whip back his cloak and blast away with an AK-47 rifle. He might kill or wound a soldier or two, forcing the military to give chase and shoot back -- and thus turn more people against the government...
...first time Hout Seng saw the Khmer Rouge up close, they were running past his ground-floor apartment on the southern outskirts of Phnom Penh. They wore black pajamas and sandals made of tires, and had branches tied to their backs as camouflage. All carried AK-47s. It was the morning of April 17, 1975. % After five years of war, the Communist rebels were on the brink of victory. As the government's remaining defenses collapsed, more and more guerrillas poured past Seng's residence into the capital. By midafternoon the war was over, and people were celebrating...
...ward of the same hospital lies a civilian woodcutter named Top Sakhan, 44. He is the father of a boy, 10, and a girl, 7. A week before, Khmer Rouge guerrillas jumped him in a nearby forest. For no particular reason, they shot him in both legs with an AK-47 and left him lying there. "I called after them, 'Why don't you just kill me?' " Top Sakhan says. "But they didn't answer." Doctors saved his right leg and amputated the left. "His life is finished," whispers the hospital administrator...
Lehtinen affects a paramilitary style that has won him few friends around the office. He posts his motto -- NO GUTS. NO GLORY --on bulletin boards, barks orders like a drill sergeant, and once waved a toy AK-47 at his staff. He often shouts and curses, and has been known to throw objects. A number of experienced prosecutors have left, including Richard Gregorie, the 17-year veteran who got the Noriega indictment...
...Congress lacked the courage to do anything. During the year of inaction on Capitol Hill, we have seen too many other tragedies brought about by assault weapons. In Louisville an ex-employee of a printing plant went on a shooting spree with a Chinese-made semiautomatic version of the AK- 47, gunning down 21 people, killing eight and himself. Two Colorado women were murdered and several others injured by a junkie using a stolen MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. And Congress votes itself a pay raise...