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...question, he came up with a great one. in 1998 Heston, who had long since renounced his gun-control stance, became president of the NRA. Two years later, addressing an NRA convention, he mimicked Moses??? gesture at the Red Sea by holding above his head one of the 400 firearms he owned - a handmade Brooks flintlock rifle - and proclaiming that the Democratic Presidential candidate could remove that gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands." It was as if Al Gore was Messala, or the Ape King, or the Omega man's marauders, or a band of Comanches...
...many guests came away with new respect and sympathy for Carter. In another it probably would prove unsuccessful: it was unlikely that any Carter speech could live up to the expectations that surrounded his appearance on Sunday night. Ironically, on CBS-TV, the speech pre-empted a segment of Moses???The Lawgiver, a series that depicts Moses descending from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments...
...Naturally the President would have made haste to accept the present invitation if it had not been that this invitation was issued by the League of Nations. To many members of Congress the name of the League of Nations is still anathema?to Borah, to Hiram W. Johnson, to Moses???but in general the "irreconcilables" none the less favor disarmament...
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