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...stand her." Parton's security consultant, Gavin DeBecker, 29, recommended that she cancel the concert and three others scheduled for last week. DeBecker believes he has a line on the man, a mental patient who has been arrested "a number of times." As for Parton, who carries a snub-nosed pistol and has in the past indicated no reluctance to use it, she holed up first in Nashville, then in Los Angeles, behind tight security...
Refusing to take the snub lightly, Vellucci sent a letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and several Massachusetts congressmen protesting the poor treatment the city received from Sheik Mohammad Fassi...
Finally, the perfect knock-'em-dead gift for the man or woman who has everything: something to protect everything with. Not your ordinary cold steel snub nose, mind you. That would never do for kings, sultans and other mega-consumers. At Bijan's exclusive Beverly Hills boutique, where the clientele snaps up such wares as $95,000 chinchilla bedspreads and $1,500 bottles of perfume for men, self-defense means a $10,000 gold designer gun. "You don't want to be at home and have someone try to kill you," explains the Iranian-born proprietor, Bijan...
Bignone's tenure will be complicated by a gaping schism within the three-man military junta. The air force and navy dropped out of political decision making two weeks ago to protest the army's refusal to appoint a civilian as President. In a deliberate snub, Navy Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya arrived at Bignone's inauguration only at the last minute. Air Force Chief Basilio Lami Dozo boycotted the ceremony altogether. Nonetheless, the army's enormous edge in manpower (130,000 troops) over the navy (36,000) and the air force (19,500) is likely...
...bill that would ban the sale of snub-nosed handguns in Massachusetts was reviewed unfavorably last week by a combined House-Senate committee, but supporters say the bill still may pass through a vote of the full legislature...