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Others countered that delaying would lessen the impact of the reaction. "After the events this weekend, the University community is looking to us for response," said Lowell House representative Erica S. Eisenberg...
Disappointed by its lack of impact, the council closed its doors last week. "The public doesn't seem to know we're here," lamented Salant, who had served as council president for the past ten months. "And worse yet, the press just didn't think we're very useful." Undaunted, he called the news council "a valid idea whose time has not yet come, but will in the near future." Perhaps...
...than 50 million handguns are is circulation in the United States today, and the number grows by two million a year. More than 11,000 Americans fall victim each year to handgun deaths. Hart's proposals are unlikely to lower this toll. His suggested background check would have little impact. First, states which already have such procedures acknowledge that because of limited police resources, they rarely run the examination. Second, a large portion of violent crimes are committed by those without a previous record. Finally, established criminals would have no problem buying weapons "hot" or simply stealing them...
...close friends gathered round when the awful impact of Edwin Thomas' $15,000 loan to Ursula Meese began to sink in. "I blew it," Ed Meese kept repeating in a low tone. "I completely forgot about it." At one point, when her husband left the room to make a phone call, Ursula broke down and wept. Never before had the friends seen Ursula Meese cry. "I've done this to him," she sobbed, "and he doesn't deserve...
Some of Reagan's highest aides counseled against diluting the impact of his domestic program with a foreign undertaking that would generate tremendous noise in the press and in Congress. Weinberger genuinely feared the creation of another unmanageable tropical war into which American troops and money would be poured with no result different from Viet Nam. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, chastened by Viet Nam, in which our troops performed with admirable success but were declared to have been defeated, and by the steady decline of respect for the military?and the decline of military budgets?resisted a major commitment...