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Instead of going for the conventional Saturday Night Special, though, Brandon buys a nice, big pump-action shotgun, which Jamie shudders at the thought of using. She doesn't want to be reduced to a common vigilante and tells Brandon that she's strong enough to fight Derek without the gun. "Strong don't mean jackshit when you're dealing with crazy. "Brandon says, pumping the gun for emphasis. Now this is funny stuff...
...election, the situation in El Salvador may well deteriorate further, since the guerrillas will step up military action to disrupt the voting. Last week a Salvadoran businessman, sympathetic to U.S. efforts, considered the problems that lay ahead. He carried a handgun on his hip and he had a shotgun in his car. "You can't have a stable country where 90% of your people are poor," said he. "You're sitting on a volcano. The Marxists already have the power of hatred. It's up to us to see if we have anything else." -By George Russell...
When the speech is over and the caravan heads out of town, Maldonado and Carpio are moved into the two bulletproof vans, and the volunteers who ride shotgun unsheath their weapons. For the next hour, the campaigners drive watchfully through the narrow roads and mountain passes at twilight until, it seems, the danger is gone. On the way back to the capital, Maldonado and his men are exhausted, caked with the day's dirt. "We go with our language of moderation, peace, everything, trusting justice rather than strength," says the candidate. "I know it's difficult...
...Monty Lee Eddings, then 16, murdered an Oklahoma highway patrolman with a sawed-off shotgun; he was condemned to death by an adult court. His lawyers have asked the Justices to rule that death is a disproportionate penalty for so young an offender. However the court rules, though, the public mood apparently holds that anyone old enough to commit the crime is old enough to pay the price...
...ballistic missile defense of the 1000 Miniteman silos, a much easier job than defending 100 high-value MX silos. This defense against Soviet warheads can be achieved by the use of buried nuclear explosives to throw up debris that destroys incoming warheads, by the "SWARMJET" system of launching a shotgun blast of 10,000 small unguided raockets at each warhead as it approaches the target silo. Perhaps now that the deceptive basing scheme is out of the way, real effort can be applied to analyze this shorter-term ICBM modernization option...