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...growing rift between the N.R.A. and some police groups is another important reason lawmakers feel freer to resist gun-lobby pressure. Last year the N.R.A. went up against Texas police groups over its lobbying for a law permitting citizens to carry concealed weapons. "They're an 800-lb. gorilla with no finesse," complains Ronald DeLord, president of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. "Every issue isn't the Alamo...
Since Zhivkov was the architect of the country's discriminatory laws, his arrest seemed to signal that the government is determined to resist demands that limits on Turkish civil rights be restored. But it also showed how the government had been pushed by the crowds to cut ties with its past and how it was forced to scramble to maintain a modicum of support. After all, it was the same Petar Mladenov who lavished praise on Zhirkov for "his long and loyal service" when the veteran leader was eased from office only ten weeks...
...times of confusion and hardship, desperate politicians often cannot resist the temptation to use ethnic minorities as scapegoats. The sudden arrival of new freedoms in the Warsaw Pact states at the end of 1989 has brought with it a broadened right to be demagogic and irresponsible, threatening the region's proclaimed goals of democracy, cooperation and stability. "People are able to make decisions for themselves again, and they ) are starting at grade one," says Deyan Kyurianov, a leader of Bulgaria's opposition Union of Democratic Forces. "Nationalism is easy to understand and quick to arouse...
...hard for me to believe that the cruel twist to my No-Doz-swallowing history is an unabating attraction to the tiny blue pills. I should resist this new addiction, I know. But I'm still debating it, and I probably will be all night...
...someone is plotting their extinction. But, as Harvard political scientist Martin Kilson points out, it is "a long way from believing some whites would like to - exterminate blacks to believing they are capable of doing so." Conspiracy theories insult blacks by suggesting that they are hapless victims powerless to resist a racist scheme. They imply that the African Americans who have become mayors and police chiefs in dozens of cities are either willing participants in the plot or inept dupes...