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...proposal sought to close a loophole in an existing law on semiautomatic weapons, those rapid-fire guns that require a single squeeze of the trigger for every round discharged. In 1989, two months after a deranged man with a semiautomatic murdered five children at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, President Bush was persuaded to place a ban on the importation of all such foreign-made weapons. But the edict was virtually meaningless, since the vast majority of "semis" purchased in the U.S. are manufactured at home...
...facilities still concentrate on homemaking or low-paid skills like beautician and launderer. The pity is that women inmates, often the sole support of their families, are "more motivated career-wise than the men," says Paul Bestolarides, who directs a program at the Northern California Women's Facility in Stockton that includes training in landscaping and electrical work. Too often a woman leaves prison even less equipped to earn an honest living than her male counterpart...
...starting Oct. 4, 8 p.m. EDT). For baseball fans, it's all CBS from now on. Jack Buck and Dick Stockton will handle the play-by-play for the network's first postseason coverage in 40 years...
Graham, presently the tennis program coordinator and head women's coach at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., has had a winning record for 10 consecutive years. The 1985 Big West Conference Coach of the Year was notified approximately two weeks ago that he had been chosen by the department...
Survivors of a genocidal war, Cambodians carry traumatic psychological burdens. Sometimes it seems as if the war has quite literally followed them across the sea. In the municipal cemetery in Stockton, Calif., a few graves are marked by odd, poignant gifts: plastic dolls, balloons, soft-drink cans, plates of fruit, piles of pennies. They are the offerings of bereaved Cambodian parents to the spirits of four children who were murdered in last year's rampage by a mentally deranged drifter at the city's Cleveland elementary school. Though Stockton police maintain that the episode was not racially motivated, the Indochinese...