Word: guns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find John Locke there, the Liberty Book Shop located on Washington Street, exercises its first amendment rights, selling both "adult" books and videos as well as sexual paraphernelia. The well-lit store has the feel of a mom and pop video store. The difference is that instead of "Top Gun" and "Wall Street," this place has visual displays for films like "Hannah Does Her Sisters" and "Amber's Sex Asylum." One table is devoted to homosexual pornographic videos...
...easy. When he is in Texas, Dukakis seems like the man who fell to earth: alien and uncomfortable. The Republicans have been effectively tarring the Governor with the liberal label and pressing all the local "hot buttons" -- gun control, the A.C.L.U., the Pledge of Allegiance, capital punishment. The latest polls show Dukakis falling 10 points behind...
...Palace. Desperate, Namphy called for help from Colonel Jean-Claude Paul, who commands Haiti's main military barracks. Paul hurried to the scene but without mustering his men. When Namphy finally grabbed a megaphone and tried to persuade the rebellious troops to leave, they responded with M-60 machine-gun fire. Namphy then surrendered and was flown to exile in the Dominican Republic, where he remains holed up in a heavily guarded hotel suite...
...when Avril stood before his new civilian Cabinet in the National Palace last Monday, Hebreux was at his left, a manila envelope in one hand, an Uzi submachine gun on his shoulder. And when Avril appeared before Presidential Guard troops the following day, Hebreux handed him a statement to read...
...George III and his ministers were even more distressed when, on Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria, a lightly armed brigantine flying the flag of the Continental Congress, was greeted by an eleven-gun salute from the fort guarding the main harbor of the Dutch West Indian island of St. Eustatius. Legitimizing the rebels with this ritual act was particularly galling because the Caribbean port was used, despite repeated British protests, to supply American troops with gunpowder and shot. St. Eustatius was Holland's "Golden Rock," a neutral speck devoted entirely to commerce...