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...surging lawlessness has spawned a crime wave that has turned the Philippines into a kind of Dodge City East, where just about everybody packs a pistol, and news of muggings and murders crowds most other stories off the front pages of the newspapers. One reason for the lawlessness is the Philippines' high unemployment rate, which is near the 15% mark and getting no better. The average income for the country's 33 million people is a meager $500 a year, and buying power is being forced down by rising living costs. The government's huge bureaucracy...
...licensing for ex-offenders needs a "thorough overhaul." A dangerous driver is obviously unfit for a driver's license; a stickup artist should never get a pistol permit. But why require "good character" for a barber's license? A better rule: "Criminal convictions should be considered only to the extent actually relevant to fitness to participate in activities posing particular dangers to society...
...than me now. He doesn't sass the captains. He's a good, red-blooded American boy." Buck taught his son to hunt and fish in the dense woods near by. Schoolmates of Counter Guerrilla Glide still recall how, when he was twelve, he converted a cap pistol into a zip gun and shot a deer, then dived into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon...
...President Rene Barrientos ordered a Ranger battalion to make pursuit; so far, the army has killed ten guerrillas and captured ten, including a 26-year-old Frenchman named Jules Regis Debray, who studied guerrilla warfare under Castro and organized the Bolivian band. Last week, armed with a pistol, rifle and grenades, Barrientos himself joined the guerrilla hunters...
...Most of the platoon, though, was wiped out in the first assault. Kirby and a few survivors, including Castan, fought their way out of the encirclement behind a barrage of hand grenades. All of them were wounded at least twice. Castan, belatedly armed with Kirby's .357 Magnum pistol, disappeared into the man-high elephant grass and was gunned down. His film of the doomed platoon was found days later on a dead Red. Kirby, who was carrying only a flare pistol, escaped by blasting a skirmisher between the eyes with his last flare. One of his buddies survived...