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...DETROIT COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them. A licensed gun dealer, required to surrender his business records to ATF's national tracing center, coated them first with rat excrement. A flyer found posted in Pennsylvania reads WANTED: ATF AGENT. DEAD...
When TIME decided to undertake this week's story about the beleaguered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the editors knew immediately where to turn. Senior writer Erik Larson, who joined the staff in February, is a recognized authority on America's gun culture, having published a series of groundbreaking front-page stories on the subject for the Wall Street Journal and a critically acclaimed book, Lethal Passage: The Journey of a Gun (Crown...
...inquiry today, said sealed affidavits claimed rape and narcotics use may have occurred at one of the "Good Ol' Boys Roundups," an annual gathering staged for federal, state and local law enforcement officers since 1980 in rural Tennessee. Making matters worse, two black agents ofthe Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one retired and one active, depicted Roundup organizer Gene Rightmyer as a man who went out of his way to insult blacks. One of them, Larry Stewart, said Rightmyer approached three black agents in 1985 and "without any provocation . . . stated, 'You were born trash, you'll live...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, facing in record unpopularity and mired in internal crisis, on Wednesday will have to weather new congressional hearings into the 1993 federal siege in which 91 people died near Waco, Texas. TIME's Elaine Shannon reports that two GOP-dominated House committees plan to begin eight days of testimony by examining whether the ATF should have targeted the Branch Davidian compound in the first place. "It's hard to find anybody in Washington who thinks they did," she says. "The Clinton Administration cannot come out of this looking very good, since the Branch Davidians...
Food and Drug Administration Chairman David Kessler said the agency and White House officials are discussingnew ways to regulate tobacco products. But he did not confirm a report in the New York Times that the agency will recommend to President Clinton that nicotine be classified as an addictive drug. Responding to the Times report, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the FDA had "lost its mind." Seeking to diffuse the situation, Clinton would only say that children should be discouraged from smoking...