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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Industries suspended commercial sales of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, the civilian copy of the military's M-16. In California the 80-member state assembly voted by a narrow margin (41 to 38) to outlaw the manufacture and sale of semiautomatic weapons, a move that could inspire two dozen other state legislatures considering similar bans. It was a stunning triple play that exhilarated gun- control activists and left the mighty gun lobby fuming...
...growth of huge regional discount stores -- despite all the convenience they provide -- has been devastating for many small downtowns, since one shopping center can draw customers away from a dozen or more communities. Says Robert Van Hook, executive director of the National Rural Health Association: "Wal-Marts are the last nails in the coffins of a lot of rural Main Streets." Because downtown retail shops are important employers, their decline can be fatal to the rest of the town's economy as well. Another major small-town employer, the local hospital, is disappearing at the rate of more than...
...folks of Clay Center are anxiously waiting to find out whether the aircraft company will locate there. And Deanna Fuller, who maintains a storefront office next door to city hall, is working on a dozen other possibilities. Already she has assisted in organizing a community campaign to help expand a manufacturing plant that makes grain augers. Editor Ned Valentine, whose family-owned newspaper has chronicled the town's ups and downs for 100 years, is optimistic. Says he: "The difference between towns that survive and towns that don't is attitude, not population." Clay Center may have the moxie...
...suspended Navy official, Stuart E. Berlin, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the continuing investigation which has resulted in a dozen guilty pleas so far. He is to be sentenced June 2 and could face as long as 25 years in prison and fines of as much...
That is what most frightens the foes of genetic engineering. If biologists can change the course of heredity, they can try to play God and influence human destiny. In 1983 activist Jeremy Rifkin, a longtime opponent of many kinds of genetic research, and several dozen theologians mounted an unsuccessful effort to persuade Congress to ban all experiments on human germ cells. Said Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ, at the time: "We're not good enough or responsible enough. There is no question about it. We will abuse this power...