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...DONNA SHALALA...
From the sound of the squawking of the Cabinet secretaries, one would have thought that something serious was under discussion. But when Janet Reno, Donna Shalala and company testified before a Senate committee this week about a lurking threat to every program they administer, it was just more of the exaggerated conceit that never seems far from a debate on the balanced budget amendment...
...control advocates are trying to head off first-time buyers by warning them of the new risks they will be running. "We must teach our citizens that guns are dangerous consumer products," said Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in a speech last Thursday before the American Trauma Society. She points to studies that have found that having a gun in the home makes it five times as likely that someone in the household will commit suicide, and three times as likely that someone will be murdered. Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini recalls a young mother...
...President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies...
...efforts to - increase funding for AIDS research and to raise awareness of the disease. He responded to a heckler at a hospital by saying, "I'd rather have that man in here screaming at me than have him give up altogether." Earlier, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced a plan to accelerate research, and Attorney General Janet Reno promised to fight for prosecution of doctors and nurses who refuse to treat AIDS sufferers...