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Your observation is premature. As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I plan to introduce legislation that will ban "Saturday night specials." The bill will strive to take these guns off the market. These weapons have absolutely no purpose other than to kill or maim human beings...
...captain who besieges a city," said Machiavelli, "should strive by every means in his power to relieve the besieged of the pressure of necessity, and thus diminish the obstinacy of their defense. He should promise them a full pardon if they fear punishment, and if they are apprehensive for their liberties, he should assure them that he is not the enemy of the public good, but only of a few ambitious persons in the city who oppose it." Machiavelli would have been much pleased by Brezhnev's speech. It singled out the ambitious "enemies," and was rich in references...
...feet. Temporarily postponing the foreign threat can only add to the mistaken belief that its problems are overseas and not at home. The Big Three must move swiftly to develop quality cars that attain high gasoline mileage. Meanwhile, both the corporations and the automobile workers' unions must strive to improve relations and guarantee greater productivity in the workplace. Automobile workers are among the highest paid laborers in a nation which has a right to demand better performance and productivity standards than it now tolerates. Perhaps efforts to give workers more control over their workplace--thereby inciting pride and incentive--will...
...military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is in an especially uncomfortable position, since leftists in Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party support the Salvadoran guerrillas. Officials in all three capitals made it clear that they would like to see the U.S. strive for a negotiated settlement between the warring factions in El Salvador rather than risk escalating the conflict by supplying more arms. Officials in Bonn and Paris also asked the U.S. to urge the Salvadoran government to demonstrate greater respect for human rights -an indication that the Reagan Administration's reluctance...
...activity which Howe credits with helping him overcome his mental depression, and with it, his disease. He is quick to deny, that his personal experience can be reapplied to other cancer patients. But in his own case, Howe feels that sports offered him some tangible goals towards which to strive, and that his setting of those goals helped him realize he had control over his own life. "Once I decided on a goal, the pain became incidental," Howe says, drawing an analogy between sports and his life. His pursuit of achievement, Howe believes, helped him overcome his temporary pain...