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...lands on mushier ground, however, when it leaps from such / examples into a far broader argument: that more lives are saved than lost by the firearms Americans acquire to protect themselves and their property. The N.R.A. emphasized that claim in a two-page newspaper advertisement attacking TIME for its report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State...
Even the American Rifleman accounts of how helpful a gun can be in saving a life may not always tell the full story. In the case of cabdriver Bolton, the N.R.A. magazine failed to report how chance, rather than her pistol, saved her life. Bolton told the Arizona Republic that after she wounded her assailant, he grabbed her gun, pushed the barrel against her neck and pulled the trigger several times. What really saved Bolton was that she had emptied the chamber. Said she: "I kept thinking that maybe there was a bullet still in it and it would...
...incidents, but the mechanical glitches renewed concern about whether maintenance crews that are stretched thin can maintain an adequate margin of safety. Not only do federal rules require modifications on thousands of older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with new, technically complicated planes. The ATA report, based on a survey of 21 major airlines, found that carriers have been unable to find mechanics for 4,000 vacancies out of a total of 69,000 positions. More troubling, the number of applicants for mechanic's positions is declining...
Tough policies more than tough talk will be needed to overhaul the economy. A World Bank report shows that state subsidies in Poland have grown alarmingly in recent years, and now amount to 30% of budget expenditures. To continue the supports is to risk bankruptcy. Yet removing them could create just the sort of hardship that provoked violent unrest in the past, leading to the downfall of governments in 1956, 1970 and again in 1980, the year Solidarity was born...
Antiapartheid activists are convinced that the increase in legal challenges has changed public perceptions and laid a basis for the law commission's extraordinary working paper. The final report will be presented to Parliament early next year and, while there is no likelihood that the government will embrace the paper, the debate will give new legitimacy to civil rights workers, who are too often seen as dangerous leftists in South Africa. State Judge Jack Etheridge of Atlanta, who recently spent seven months in Johannesburg, insists that the best counsel is to "test the government"in court. As the legal activists...