Word: gunman
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...more than 250 wounded in widespread rioting that followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims say more than one gunman was involved -- Rabin phoned P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat with an apology: "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." Arafat called for disarming Israel's West Bank settlers...
...year-old British soldier was killed by an I.R.A. gunman in the town of Crossmaglen on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. The killing was the first by the I.R.A. since Ireland and Britain signed the Downing Street Declaration, which outlines a step-by-step peace plan for Northern Ireland. One element of the plan is that the I.R.A. must forswear violence for three months in order to be included in negotiations...
...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 Island Rail Road gunman, it has not drawn up legislation. Despite his words last week, the President is in no hurry to add another political battle to the ones pending on health-care and welfare reform...
...produced a national shudder, the kind that follows any awful crime that bleeds into unexpected corners -- the toddler caught in cross fire during a trip to the Denver zoo, eight people gunned down in a swanky San Francisco law firm, and now five dead and 18 wounded by the gunman on the commuter train. These are the crimes that seem impossible to prevent, to avoid or to forget. And they have a way of focusing the mind...
...message from constituents that battling violence should be at the top of their agenda, right beside jobs and the economy. "When Congress returns in January, they can once again expect to see me wheeling through the halls," said Jim Brady, the White House press secretary shot by a gunman aiming at President Ronald Reagan in 1981, "a rolling reminder that we must continue to work together to make America safer...