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...Colorado's thriving weekend gun marts, business is pretty good these days. In the Denver suburb of Commerce City, where gun shoppers graze the warehouse aisles, you can buy a .22-cal. pistol for just $70. Granted, prices are down from a year ago, when passage of the Brady Law led to a surge of panic buying. But it's because of Brady that business is also done a little differently now--most gun dealers are frequently on the phone, calling state agents for a background check on every would-be purchaser. Not all the gun dealers, however...
...Just so." And why not? When the 20th crime fable by a skilled old pro turns up on the library shelf, the heart of the villainy enthusiast knows peace. Brain cells may safely graze. Here, newly old, are four of this season's best crime novels by writers who've been around the course a few times...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced that the Administration would raise the fees for ranchers who graze livestock on federal land. Last February Clinton undercut Babbitt by trading away a similar increase to gain the support of several Western Senators for his budget. The fees will now rise from $1.86 to $4.28 per head of cattle, still below the $5 to $15 charged on private land. Fee hikes may also loom on other federal lands...
...Babbitt wants grazing fees raised across 16 Western states, which would affect 29,000 ranchers whose cattle and sheep graze on about 280 million federal acres. The current fee, $1.86 per month to graze one cow and her calf, is well below market value. But any raise is tempered by concern for small ranchers. An estimated 45% of ranchers using federal lands have fewer than 100 cattle. Babbitt's idea: a two-tier fee structure that charges the small rancher less and offers a credit to those who improve the land. In May he will hold hearings on the issue...
...ruins thin out at the eastern end of Mogadishu, which the Marines refer to as "Mog," giving way to a surprisingly green plain where donkeys, cattle and camels graze. The Marines are entering territory they have not yet explored. Sitting on top of their vehicles, they point M-16s toward the thorn trees and foot-high shoots of corn on either side of the road. Hot exhaust fumes coat their faces in soot. Each time the convoy approaches a village, Somalis come out to cheer. "It's unbelievable," says Fisher. "You're expecting them to shoot at you, and they...