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...question for the N.R.A. is whether it will continue to speak for a large body of opinion or dwindle into sound and fury from the margins. That will probably depend on whether it can match its voice to the sentiments of people who are citizens as well as gun owners. If the N.R.A. has the appeal of a faith, it also has the weaknesses of many religions. Faith can be too blunt and brittle, too full of certainties to engage all the dense dilemmas of American life. In a matter as complex as gun control, the mind that allows room...
Those actions will depend on the behavior of Mandela and the A.N.C. In its 78th anniversary message from Lusaka last week, the A.N.C. urged an intensification of the armed struggle against the South African government. Privately, however, A.N.C. officials admitted that they had reduced their military operations and that if De Klerk delivered a reasonable package of reforms, they would be prepared to talk about talks...
...pigment vital for photosynthesis in phytoplankton, slowing the marine plants' growth rate by as much as 30%. That, in turn, could threaten krill, shrimplike creatures that feed on phytoplankton and are a key link in Antarctica's food chain. Says El-Sayed: "Fish, whales, penguins and winged birds all depend very heavily on krill. If anything happened to the krill population, the whole system would collapse...
Former Republican City Committee Chair John R.Moot '43 also said he was skeptical of Dixon'schances, but added that a sucessful Republicancampaign might depend on the outcome of thegubernatorial race...
Endara's chances of forming a government that does not need to be propped up by U.S. troops and tanks depend heavily on his getting control of the Panamanian military. But it is the U.S. that is picking the leaders of the new Public Forces. And though the Americans are screening former P.D.F. members against "black, gray and white" lists (black representing the deepest degree of involvement with Noriega), they have nonetheless named a former Noriega henchman to command the new militia. He is Roberto Armijo, who helped Noriega squelch a coup last October and participated in the fight against...