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Cash-hungry nations like China and the former Eastern bloc countries have found a niche market in guns that can slip in even under the new regulations. "As opposed to cheap, shoddy Saturday-night specials," says Jack Killorin, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, "you've got very high-quality firearms coming in at bargain-basement prices." A fine Czech Republic semiautomatic handgun called the CZ, formerly made for infantry use, sells for about $250, in contrast to $700 to $850 for a comparable Austrian or Swiss handgun...
...using a cigarette tax to generate revenue than to protect the public health. The task force, headed by HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, once leaned toward raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $2 or more. But they discovered that in Canada and other countries that heavily tax tobacco, the very high levies discourage smoking -- as they are intended to -- and so eventually bring in less revenue than a lower tax. As one task-force official says, "At this point, we're more interested in maximizing revenue." Under the current thinking, the tax will begin at just $1 a pack...
Ensuring a further price war in the tobacco industry, Philip Morris decided to make permanent the temporary price reductions on Marlboro cigarettes that it put into effect in April and to extend price cuts to its other brands...
...York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults at a rave party in an abandoned house -- the rage among middle-class youths everywhere with money to burn -- and their rich assortment of hooch: pot, uppers, downers, heroin, cocaine and Ecstasy, a powerful amphetamine. In Los Angeles, Hispanic gangs chill out by dipping their cigarettes in PCP (phencyclidine, an animal tranquilizer...
...cases revive the dormant Unabom Task Force, named for the attacks on universities and an airline. It includes elements of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the FBI and the Postal Service. In 1991 investigators compiled a psychological profile based on the chronology and location of FC's targets as well as the materials used in the explosive devices. The bomber is a white male, obsessive-compulsive, with low self-esteem stemming perhaps from physical flaws. He grew up in or around Chicago and was employed in low-level work. The investigators believe he is meticulously organized and loves...