Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kill all aboard. Only six attempts have failed, all on flukes. Sheriff's deputies shot out the tires of a skyjacked Continental Boeing 707 trying to take off from El Paso. Daniel Richards, 33, an Ohio mental patient who tried to commandeer a Delta flight suddenly dropped his gun, curled up in his seat and began weeping. He said he was "dying of cancer" and did not care what happened. Two weeks ago aboard another Delta flight, a pilot refused to obey the orders of a skyjacker who tried to take over the jet on its final landing approach...
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to the full legal authorization of $300 million. Whatever President Nixon does, he will not find quick, inexpensive solutions. One exception: passage of a strong gun-control law that would not only register all guns but also curb ownership for anything but hunting. Without gun control, all other measures are half steps...
...Israeli attack at Beirut [Jan. 3] was monumentally stupid. Some Arabs are moderates as far as Israel is concerned, and would like to work out solutions at the conference table if Israel and their own people would permit. Others are militants and see no answer but the gun and the grenade. Israel's attack pulled the rug from under the moderates, whom they should aim to strengthen, and added tremendously to the backing of the militants...
...Tregoff, killed Finch's wife. Two juries were deadlocked and three trials held before Finch and Tregoff were convicted. They were saved from the gas chamber, and connoisseurs of courtroom melodrama still recall the lawyer's re-enactment of Finch's supposed struggle to get the gun from his wife before-as he claimed-she shot herself...
...county grand jury of nine whites and 14 Negroes stood in an Atlanta courtroom last week as a judge empowered them to investigate the need for better crime-and gun-control legislation in Atlanta. In their first official act, the jurors then elected a foreman: the Rev. Martin Luther King...