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...Taking stands that made it easy for opponents to paint the group as wantonly indifferent to public safety, the N.R.A. has found itself repeatedly battling police organizations, whose leaders complain that they are being outgunned by gangs and drug dealers. In 1988 it suffered its first statewide referendum loss. Maryland voters that year refused to repeal a law that would allow the banning of some kinds of handguns. This was despite an N.R.A. campaign that cost $6.6 million, nine times as much as the opposition spent...
...rarely enters local or state battles until it is summoned by one of its affiliates, and even then not before testing the waters. When it does jump in, it tends to do so with both feet. That was one important reason the N.R.A. lost its battle to repeal a Maryland law that set up a Governor-appointed committee to prohibit certain handguns. The gun lobby enraged Governor William Donald Schaefer, a supporter of the law, by distributing a broadsheet that accused him of "untruths" and "flip-flops." That made the popular Schaefer so angry that he became an active campaigner...
...Barney Frank threatened to expose Republican officeholders who really are homosexual. Few in Washington doubted that there were such officials, or that Frank, an acknowledged gay, would be able to name them. Republicans were already keenly aware of the ironic fates of two of their most prominent antigay voices, Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman and conservative fund-raiser Terry Dolan. Bauman's political career ended in 1980, when he was charged with soliciting a teenage boy for a paid sex act; Dolan died in 1986 of AIDS complications. Republicans backed off, so Frank did not carry out his threat...
...finally been getting the kind of national attention that she deserves. In 1981, Baltimore unveiled a statue of Lady Day four blocks west of the black ghetto where she grew up; in 1986 a "Billie Holiday" star was placed on Hollywood's Walk of Fame; and this January, Maryland has started its first annual Billie Holiday Jazz Singer's Competition...
...second measure passed overwhelmingly under the threat of a similar federal law proposed by New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley and Maryland Representative Tom McMillen, both former pro basketball players. The rule requires schools to report annually the percentage of football-and basketball- team members who managed to graduate during the previous five years, plus these figures for other athletes and all students. Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who cites his teams' high graduation rates in recruiting, says the rule gives schools an incentive to limit practice time and put studies first...