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...result of such attacks, numerous U.S. cities have tried to outlaw the breed. Most laws banning the pit bull get thrown out in court. Judges usually find that because the term pit bull means any one of three breeds, as well as crosses with these breeds, it is difficult to define legally. A more successful technique for protecting the public may be to pass ordinances making owners of any dog responsible for harm inflicted by their pets...
LAST OF THE BREED...
Even John Wayne made a picture in modern dress every once in a while. Louis L'Amour, western man, has followed the Duke's example. In his 95th novel, Last of the Breed, he focuses on Joseph Makatozi, a major in the U.S. Air Force. But Joe is not quite the contemporary he seems. Sioux and Cheyenne blood flows in his arteries ("My people were warriors once"), and when his experimental aircraft is forced down over the Bering Sea, he becomes a Native American fugitive in a 20th century world, retracing the path his ancestors took across the strait...
...decade ago, Eurocommunism seemed an idea whose time had come. A new breed of Mediterranean Marxists preached a brand of Communism that renounced revolution, espoused democracy and rejected Soviet domination. Politicians of both the right and left fretted that Eurocommunism was about to transform the political scene. Western observers feared during the 1976 parliamentary election campaign in Italy that the Communists would get enough votes to force the ruling Christian Democrats into the "historic compromise" coalition. The Communists fell just short...
...date, however, the mosquito's buzz has been worse than its bite. The tiger has not yet been blamed for any reports of illness in the U.S. Nor can it fly far on its own. It likes to breed in stagnant water often found in used tires; to travel, it hitches rides on trucks and ships...