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Though nobody expects it to back down for long, the National Rifle Association is also doing some rethinking. Recently the N.R.A. ran full-page ads in major newspapers that pictured helmeted Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents bursting through a door. N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, in fund-raising letters and articles published in the organization's magazine, has been warning of a "secret plan" under way in Washington to "crush your gun rights." the final war has begun, reads the banner headline over an article by LaPierre in the August issue of American Rifleman, the N.R.A.'s monthly magazine...
...blast, and the other two to potential targets whose names are being kept secret -- have given investigators their best clues yet. An additional 100 agents were quickly added to the 30-person, San Francisco-based Unabom task force run jointly by the fbi, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the post office...
...earlier. In 1993, bombs killed 43 and injured 281, up from 29 dead and 230 wounded two years earlier. The increase does not take into account the six deaths and 1,042 injuries caused by the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, about half the bombing attempts in 1993 were acts of vandalism, 13% were intended as revenge and fewer than 1% were acts of protest...
...court-appointed investigator determined that tobacco heiress Doris Duke's death was hastened by stronger and more frequent doses of morphine, administered by her doctor, Charles F. Kivowitz. Duke, who died in 1993, left an estate of $1.2 billion and no natural heirs. The report also detailed Duke's butler and companion Bernard Lafferty's spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars in estate funds since he was named co-executor...
...ruling that could have far-reaching consequences, a West Virginia Circuit Court judge today dismissed several key elements of asuit brought by the state against tobacco companies. West Virginia is suing the companies for the cost of treating Medicare patients with smoking-related illnesses, a tab that the state's Attorney General estimates at about $500 million a year. This could spell trouble for similar broad cases pending in Florida, Mississippi and Minnesota. While throwing out parts of the suit alleging fraud and other issues, Judge Irene Berger ruled that the suit could proceed on the basis ofconsumer protection laws...