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Gun Control. Reagan opposed it. Bush, too, is against new federal gun- control laws, but he responded to police and public pressure for controls on military-style assault weapons by banning the imported (though not U.S.-made) semiautomatic rifles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bless Me, Father | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Are you happy to live in the murder capital of the world? Banning the imports of automatic weapons will just force drug dealers to "Kill American." It's a heck of a way to fight the trade deficit, Mr. President. You must take stronger action against guns, or else the...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Asking About The First 100 Days | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

A ban on abortion would almost certainly result in a further increase in the already high rate of illegitimate births -- now at 23% of American children born each year -- and teenage pregnancies. Taxpayers would end up footing the bill for some of that; half of all welfare payments go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Life Is It? (Roe v. Wade) | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

According to the document, Reagan had urged the Hondurans to continue helping the contras in a letter to Suazo one month before Bush's visit. The U.S. "conditions" for giving some $110 million in aid were considered so sensitive that a secret emissary was sent to brief the Honduran President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pawn Among Giants | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

In Belgrade half a million resentful Serbs chanting "Kosovo is Serbian!" demanded a drastic expansion of their control over the province and stiff retaliatory measures against the ethnic Albanian majority. The spiraling unrest drove Raif Dizdarevic , leader of Yugoslavia's collective presidency, to dispatch paramilitary units and tanks into Kosovo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Steps Toward The Abyss | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

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