Word: controllers
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Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe...
...massacre of more than half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda. They make their camps in the wilds of eastern Congo - formerly known as Zaire - wreaking havoc there or across the border in Rwanda, and current Congolese president Laurent Kabila has shown little inclination to control them. (Rwanda, the region?s military heavyweight, once backed Kabila?s rebellion against Mobutu Sese Seko because Mobutu would not control the militias; now it is backing the new Congo rebels against Kabila for the same reason.) So what happened in Zambia on Tuesday was that everybody signed except the people...
...they miss the point. We don't mind if good, law-abiding citizens keep guns for their self-protection, hunting and total commitment to constitutional rights. But we want to keep guns away from children, criminal lunatics and other undesirable or dangerous elements. Then why would anyone oppose gun control? Tough gun control can benefit all, including the N.R.A. BEN H. KIM Chicago...
...tragedies in Atlanta and at Columbine High School in Colorado provide useful lessons. No gun-control law can prevent criminals from obtaining deadly weapons. If not a gun, a homemade bomb, hammer or ax will suffice. And new antiterrorist police, who seldom intervene before a bloody rampage is over, cannot protect people. Had a single would-be target or bystander been carrying a "cheap" concealed handgun, these attackers might have been stopped sooner. Legitimate gun owners see beyond the thinly veiled attempt to first demonize, then criminalize all gun ownership. God help us when only the police have the right...
Rosenblatt guesses that the majority of Americans favor gun control and are ready to banish guns. But that is contrary to the evidence of some polls. A Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll that has tracked the issue since 1990 found that in June 1999, only 62% of Americans favored stricter gun laws, compared with 78% in 1990. And a Gallup poll found that the percentage of people who believe the government should ban civilian handgun possession has fallen from 41% in 1981 to 38% in 1999. Perhaps a growing number of Americans have begun to realize gun-control laws do not make...