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Cash's daughter Rosanne, also a singer, says of her father, "Right now, he seems calmer than I've seen him in a long time. He seems right with himself." And he seems right with the fans, in all their variety. At a Saturday-night show in a Presbyterian church in Kansas City, Missouri, which began and ended with a prayer by the pastor, the fiftyish audience in rhinestones and T shirts responded wildly when Cash gave his trademark greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." After the performance, Cash returned to his swank hotel, where a guest in a tuxedo...
...same time, Arafat has been putting great emphasis on the threat that settlers pose to Palestinian civilians. He demanded that U.N. peacekeepers be sent to the territories. He requested a Saturday-night meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss the idea, but predictably it broke up without taking any action. Since the U.S. would be sure to veto such a move, the P.L.O. chief was mainly trying to put additional pressure on Jerusalem before the new negotiations begin...
...down, which leads to uncertainty in making effective policy. A major statistical source is the FBI's yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable to the system that tracks motor-vehicle deaths -- and which helps lawmakers tailor car and highway safety laws to real perils...
...Paula Poundstone Show, ABC's new Saturday-night comedy hour, has been canceled after just two abysmally rated episodes. It's the second fastest ax of the new season; CBS earlier junked South of Sunset after only one outing...
Cash-hungry nations like China and the former Eastern bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...