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...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...
...standards. In the pixilated police department where this sitcom is set, the captain is a nervous Nellie who can't make a decision without the approval of his protective aide-de-camp. One sentimental cop causes a ruckus when he takes to bestowing kisses on his partner. A crazed gunman barricades himself inside a building and holds off a SWAT team but seems at a loss to explain why. "I want you to send somebody in," he finally calls out, "to help me think of my demands." Even odder, all of this doesn't blast away at viewers with...