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...enforcement officials would also like more restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons like the TEC-9 and the MAC-10. Though inaccurate, those guns are also cheap, easy to conceal and convertible to fully automatic operation. Last month the Senate unexpectedly adopted Diane Feinstein's assault-weapons amendment to the crime bill. It would ban the production, sale or possession of 19 models -- if it isn't squeezed out of the joint House-Senate version of the bill. Though the White House has pledged to press for legislation banning the manufacture of semiautomatic pistols like the one used by the Long...
...Americans, it seems too radical a step. Even Handgun Control Inc. shies away from the idea, perhaps because that kind of policy would make it easier for the N.R.A. to tag it as extreme. The future of gun control is still likely to be a process of incremental measures. Feinstein's amendment on assault guns, for instance, would prohibit the 15- bullet clip that the Long Island Rail Road killer used, which allowed him to fire two long barrages before he was stopped. But even her proposal would permit clips of 10 cartridges or less. Would a measure so limited...
...Packwood is not the only one on the stand. As Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) asserts in The Globe, "The Senate's reputation is very much at stake." Whether or not this entire issue is actually relevant to the lives of average Americans is moot; that every major newspaper has plastered its pages with stores, news analyses and columns on the controversy will force Bob and Mary Jones of Peoria to think about Packwood and the Senate--and not, perhaps, about the real political issues facing them...
Harvard University Jazz Band. Big and small group jazz by Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Ken Schaphorst, Allen Feinstein and Lester Young. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $3 for students...
...tobacco industry, which sued the EPA over the report, disputes the court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the evidence in its study. Nonetheless, most health researchers agree it is prudent to keep children away from smoke as much as possible...