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...policy. A major statistical source is the FBI's yearly Uniform Crime Report. Though it breaks down deaths into three categories -- by handguns, rifles and shotguns -- it says nothing about how many people are killed by imported guns or "Saturday-night specials," or how many died while resisting a stickup. To clarify the picture, Colorado Representative Patricia Schroeder is sponsoring a bill to establish a national firearm-fatality reporting system. Comparable to the system that tracks motor-vehicle deaths -- and which helps lawmakers tailor car and highway safety laws to real perils of the road -- it would identify gun victims...
...Woodruff killed by criminals in a botched stickup? Or by an overzealous guard at a checkpoint? Or by assassins gunning for him or Gogoladze? The murder remains a mystery. American officials say the killing may have been a random event. Highwaymen regularly prey on motorists along that road. Although three locals were detained and questioned by Georgian authorities several days after the murder, a U.S. official says they were "not political." Two FBI agents flew to Tbilisi last week to participate in the investigation...
...didn't think it was strange," said Alex Pong, a cashier at the Hong Kong. "Everybody is strange here. We just gave him the order. I didn't think it was a stickup...
...fist to make a point, hooked his right thumb into his chest when referring to himself and several times rattled the china coffee cups in his vehemence. At one point, when describing how "the country is worried," he thrust his hands in the air like the victim of a stickup...
...President of the Soviet Union addressing a NATO meeting as guest of honor? Until quite recently, the idea would have seemed as preposterous as stickup artist Willie Sutton delivering the keynote speech to the American Bankers Association. But NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner will in fact fly to Moscow this weekend to give Mikhail Gorbachev a personal briefing on the results of last week's Western alliance summit in London. With him Worner will carry the diplomatic equivalent of an engraved invitation for Gorbachev to attend and speak at a future meeting of the NATO Council in Brussels, perhaps about...