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...John Candy and his family encounter every unimaginative pestilence: bats, raccoons, stubborn horses, runaway water skis, acid indigestion, puppy love. And, worst of all, a plague of relatives led by Slime King Dan Aykroyd. The comic climax comes when a bear gets its buttocks fur blown off by a shotgun. Anyone out there laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Jul. 4, 1988 | 7/4/1988 | See Source »

...Islamic patrol, drawn from young men known as the Fruit of Islam, got off to a rough start. On their first day, a group of Muslims beat up a suspected drug dealer who was carrying a shotgun, as well as a television cameraman. The local Muslim leader, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, later apologized to the cameraman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muslims At The Mayfair | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

...officer's alertness led to the arrest of Yu Kikumura, 35, a native of & Japan traveling on a stolen Japanese passport. Each of the 18-in. by 4-in. bombs was packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets; they were designed to attack humans rather than property. "If fired at a gathering of people," said U.S. Attorney Samuel Alito in Newark, "the devices could cause a real massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bombs In New Jersey and Naples | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...market has prompted manufacturers to design lightweight weapons with smaller grips, purses with built-in holsters and other accessories aimed at female buyers. Last month Shotgun News even sponsored a "gun and fashion show" in which scantily clad models demonstrated how a woman in a bikini can carry a concealed weapon (in her hairbow). A how-to video, A Woman's Guide to Firearms, released a year ago, has sold more than 8,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: When Women Take Up Arms | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...outer office of the mayor of Medellin, a thickset bodyguard cradles a Remington pump shotgun in his arms. A revolver is shoved into the waistband of his trousers, and a two-way radio is recharging in a unit near his feet. Down the hall, only a whistle away, are more armed men. Outside city hall, a uniformed policeman shoulders an Israeli-manufactured Galil automatic rifle as he casts a careful eye on passersby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia the Most Dangerous City | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

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