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...willingness to fight, which it might do again if it feels cornered." Besides, adds Ackerman, rejecting the "bad precedent" argument, "we've bought off other nuclear weapons, as in Ukraine, and we're constantly purchasing arms that have fallen into bad hands. It's better to do a buyback than to have the stuff fired at us. North Korea is just a larger version of what we're doing elsewhere...
...junta leader Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras was meeting with U.S. Ambassador William Swing and Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, the American military commander in Haiti. The demonstration evaporated a few hours later. Cedras also went on the radio calling for civilians to surrender their arms to U.S. soldiers. A gun buyback begins Tuesday -- $50 for handguns and $300 for mortars -- but TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Port-au-Prince, reports that the Haitian police, army and anti-U.S. paramilitary groups have plenty of arms stashed away...
...vote on a planned merger, Comcast Corp. -- the nation's third largest cable company and a minority shareholder in QVC -- launched a surprise bid for the QVC cable network it helped found. As CBS chairman Laurence Tisch quickly dropped the merger offer and announced a $1.1 billion stock buyback, analysts speculated that the network remains vulnerable to a takeover...
...Attorney General James Doyle boasts that more than 560 convicted felons have already been foiled from legally purchasing a weapon. In 1991, after a bitter debate, Milwaukee approved a seven-day waiting period to purchase handguns, and last month the city council set aside $50,000 for a gun buyback program proposed by Police Chief Philip Arreola, whose officers visit schools to hand out gun- safety comic books featuring Molly Magnum and Shorty Shotgun...
...home makes it five times as likely that someone in the household will commit suicide, and three times as likely that someone will be murdered. Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini recalls a young mother she met during Salt Lake City's gun amnesty and buyback program: "A mother with four young children in tow came. She said, 'This gun has been used once. My husband committed suicide with it. Take...