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...Bush Administration's July 1989 ban on the importation of rapid-fire assault-style rifles always seemed ineffectual. It mainly protected domestic gunmakers from competition. Last week the ban seemed still more illusory. The | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced that it could not prevent imports of guns like AK-47s if they were redesigned to remove military-style features such as large-capacity magazines, flash suppressors and bayonets. Such changes may make the rifles less deadly, but buyers can turn the guns into people killers with easy-to-get kits. Manufacturers, says Josh Sugarmann, director of the Firearms...
...their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted the law, pocketed good money, spit tobacco and always had great tales to tell...
Managers talk funny, often spitting tobacco to punctuate their sentences. For public consumption, they lapse into the inspirational language of after- dinner speeches. Listen to Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, baseball's answer to George Jessel, rattle off run-on cliches about his mediocre team: "We got to keep going out there and battle. We've got to believe that we can win." But the most striking thing about managers is their preternatural awareness that they have less job security than the East German government. "Every manager's job is in jeopardy," says Houston Astros skipper Art Howe...
...bucks backer: tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Unruffled by sums requiring two commas, Duke posted $5 million bail for her close friend Imelda and, it is rumored, plunked down further millions for Spence...
Like Pilz, many companies view East Germany as an extension of the West German market. The U.S. consumer-products giant Philip Morris plans to produce 10 million cigarettes a year at a Dresden plant that the company is acquiring from VEB Kombinat Tabak, East Germany's state-owned tobacco company. "We really don't consider East Germany part of Eastern Europe," says John Dollisson, a Philip Morris vice president. "Selling in Dresden should be the same as selling in Munich or Hamburg...