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Aside from suspicious or unruly natives, Wilkinson finds himself coping primarily with boredom. "By anyone's definition," he writes, Wellfleet is "a safe place to live." When one patrolman finds the town hall locked at night, he reports this fact as a "suspicious incident." The chief borrows the shotgun from a police cruiser when he goes hunting in Maine. During the only local bank heist in anyone's memory, the teller convinces the robber that his take ($300) is a lot of money to carry around in cash. The robber is obediently investing some...
...Guatemala City, the familiar convoys of shotgun-toting bodyguards have disappeared, as have the street-corner patrols of combat-ready paratroopers in flak jackets and tiger suits. Vigilante policemen are no longer seen in public. There are even reports that the new junta has disbanded the dreaded judicial police force that flourished under Lucas Garc...
...shotgun wedding promoted by the ecumenical commission between progressive Anglicanism and the hard-shell Catholicism of John Paul II has no chance of success. When the modern bride-to-be realizes that her bridegroom goes apoplectic over abortion, birth control, compromise between clerics and laity, divorce and myriad other issues accepted by her generation, she will undoubtedly choose to go it alone...
Despite a lot of huddling last week, neither side in Congress is close to agreeing on a specific package. Said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole: "We haven't put enough together to wad a shotgun." The Democrats were still busy jockeying for position. Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd called on the President to submit a new budget with a vastly reduced deficit. House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed a Camp David meeting of Administration and congressional leaders of both parties, at which a bipartisan budget could be worked out. The simplest but also the most provocative proposal...
...memories of what Fain did one night in June 1967. Driving along a country road in the San Joaquin Valley, he flashed his headlights at the car in front of him until it pulled over. When the other driver, Mark Ulrich, 17, got out, Fain killed him with a shotgun, then raped his two young women companions. Convicted of those crimes and a third rape, Fain drew a life sentence. When word of his impending parole reached Ulrich's family and friends, they formed the Keep Fain In Committee. A petition contending that Fain was too dangerous to return...