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Existing gun regulations were loose enough to allow the needless deaths of over 20,000 Americans last year. Congress, were it brave enough to ignore the campaign money the NRA waves, would see that gun laws should be strengthened. A mandatory federal waiting period and licensing of firearms--especially easily concealable handguns--would better keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, without violating anyone's rights...
CERTAIN MEMBERS of the audience at a last week's conservative club-sponsored "Contra" lecture came with a somewhat different purpose in mind than most. They came not to hear the man speak but to shout him down. Needless to say, they achieved their objective; the man was not heard. But in this case the result was a pyrrhic victory...
...passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
...heard before. Since World War II, at least 35 groups have been impaneled to study the Pentagon. "Few of these countless proposals and recommendations have been taken seriously, and an even smaller number have actually been adopted," noted a Senate Armed Services Committee study on defense organization last fall. Needless to say, merely rearranging boxes on an organization chart hardly guarantees success. Still, even among the Pentagon's staunchest allies, a search for meaningful reform is under way. Increasingly, the question is becoming not just whether to spend more on defense, but how to spend the money more wisely...
...seems the drama of worsening relations among minority groups is to be played out again--with one actor exchanged for another. When Time magazine portrays Asian-Americans as a model minority, it sows the seeds for needless conflict between Blacks and Asian-Americans--groups that might otherwise be united...