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...nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The applicant must prove he is not an alien, felon, drug user, or mental incompetent. In practice, a local police chief can deny a qualified applicant a license to carry firearms if he feels there is not sufficient need for it; anyone without a license or permit caught with a gun faces a mandatory year in jail...
This difficulty looms even larger for gun registration proposals. In a 1968 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a felon cannot be required to register his gun, reasoning that such a requirement would be forcing the felon to testify against himself, in violation of the fith amendment. This ruling seems to have made gun registration almost a dead issue...
...demands repeatedly of witnesses, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?" at exactly those moments when the other questioners are attempting to establish the circumstantial framework that will provide the answer. Joseph Montoya extracts "moral advice for the young people of this nation...from every felon who testified," and Lowell Weicker, with mind-deadening consistency explodes in a fit of moral outrage every afternoon at four o'clock, in time to dominate the evening news. Silbert and his team worried less about the strength of their case than they did about the behavior of Judge "Maximum...
...Frost-Nixon deal carries Watergate checkbook journalism to its greatest extreme to date. After the tempest triggered by its deal with Convicted Felon Haldeman, CBS swore off buying news and thus declined to bid for Nixon. Frost argues that since Nixon is out of office, the interviews are not news but a memoir and therefore immune to the checkbook charge. "There is no reason," Frost told TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin in London last week, "why Nixon shouldn't make money from this memoir as other former Presidents have done...
Many people are indignant that Watergate figures are being rewarded with fat book contracts and lecture fees. But these are not unusual. What of an interview? Is it ever proper for a news organization to pay someone for an interview, especially if he happens to be a Watergate felon? Last week CBS News plunged into the midst of the controversy by admitting that it had paid "in the neighborhood" of $25,000 (perhaps as high as $50,000, said some sources) to H.R. Haldeman, former White House chief of staff during the Nixon Administration, for a 5½-hour filmed...