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...TEENAGERS IN THE WASHINGTON AREA, THEY are a hip fashion statement: T shirts emblazoned with a 9-mm handgun or a Mac 10 semiautomatic pistol on the front and rap lyrics such as "Mac Dad'll make ya jump, jump" on the back. But to alarmed teachers and parents, the hot-selling shirts are inciting echoes of gun violence that has become a part of the area's teen culture and claimed 385 lives last year alone. At several schools, principals are asking students to turn the shirts inside out or change clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Shirts Are Out | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...PISTOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Millennium Top Ten | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...wealth, an estimated 50,000 Angolans, Zairians, South Africans, Belgians and even a few Americans have surged into Angola's remote Lunda Norte province. From the air, they look like a colony of ants tunneling aimlessly into sunbaked moonscape. On the ground, the diggers, shirtless, sometimes laboring with a pistol in one hand and a shovel in the other, are scrambling to get rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds Aren't Forever | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...heard a single shot. Then another Serb came in and said to the soldier on board, "Now get two out." More shots. Then we realized it was over, there was no life for us. They started taking people by threes, and we heard machine-gun bursts along with pistol shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder At Ugar Gorge | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...women, a boy and a younger child. No Jaradat. "Never mind," snaps the group commander. "Next time." Three weeks later, another commando team catches up with Jaradat in the nearby village of Silat al Harithiyah. According to the army's report, he is shot dead after he pulls a pistol on the soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Force | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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