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...More than 30 students, representing more than a dozen organizations including the Black Students Association, the Progressive Student Labor Movement, the Environmental Action Committee, the Progressive Jewish Alliance, and the recently established Youth at Harvard Against Handgun Violence, attended the meeting in Adams House...
...that sports figures and other celebrities can attempt to so blatantly transfer their popularity into political support, occasionally without even superficial justification. In his advertisement for Bradley, Bill Russell did not mention Bradley's support of initiatives in race relations. He didn't mention Bradley's plans to reduce handgun violence. The advertisement opened with "Bill Russell for Bill Bradley" on the screen. The rest of the spot was dedicated to Russell urging Iowan voters to participate in the caucus, with nary an explanation of Russell's support for Bradley. It came across as a basketball star endorsing another basketball...
...after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. By then elected statewide, Gore was representing Memphis and Nashville and other urban areas where, he acknowledges, "gun violence was even at that time beginning to increase." But he voted against a 14-day waiting period for handgun purchases and for allowing their sale across state lines. And as recently as 1986, the future Vice President told the Washington Monthly that gun-control laws "haven't been an effective solution to the underlying problem of violent crime." Now Gore says he was in a "process of changing...
Beyond health care and education, Bradley has also put forward a bold and intelligent proposal on gun control, calling for mandatory licenses for handgun buyers and supporting a ban on "Saturday night specials...
...where Witmer was once a student, says Witmer "was always making racist remarks to other students. The word nigger rolled off his lips regularly." Witmer, who police say was driving the car as Powell fired on Richardson, was released in June after serving time in juvenile facilities for a handgun offense. "Everybody is going to have a different view of Alex," said a Witmer relative, who declined to be identified. "But it's family, so we're going to defend him. It's unconditional love...