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Gardiner said statistics indicate that the rate of violent crime actually increased when laws making it more difficult to obtain handguns were enacted in the past...
Students say they work at HSA for a variety of reasons, including financial gain and an opportunity to obtain business experience. Some say they plan to pursue a career in business, while others have no idea what they will...
...charges of a recent Nicaraguan defector, Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea, who had occupied a top post in the Defense Ministry. Hoping to pre-empt Miranda's charges of a planned military buildup, Humberto Ortega delivered a powerful speech reaffirming Sandinista plans to arm up to 600,000 Nicaraguans and obtain Soviet MiG-21 jet fighters by 1995. Unflinchingly defiant toward the U.S., Humberto thundered, "We do not need to hide our relations with the socialist camp in defense matters...
When Congress can be instrumental in promoting right-wing policies, its has every right to do its will. When it serves as a check on such policies, however, it becomes the great usurper. Supposedly, Americans are committed to the primacy of the political process. Policies obtain legitimacy, any school boy could tell us, not because they are intrinsically right, but because they were approved through the proper constitutional process. The far right, then, for all its pretenses to patriotism, represents nothing less than a basic rejection of American constitutionalism...
...government propped up its currency by using its reserves of dollars to buy pesos. By last week, however, Mexican officials began to fear that they would come close to running out of greenbacks. If that happened, Mexico would be unable to pay interest on its foreign loans and obtain new credit from banks. Result: the government abruptly abandoned its support of the peso, sending the currency into a free fall...