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...declared "safe haven" cities in Bosnia, killing 71 people in the northern town of Tuzla alone. The air strikes, the first since November, were ordered after Bosnian Serbs ignored an ultimatum to return heavy weapons seized from U.N. collection points. Said Defense Secretary William Perry of the tougher NATO military action: "In time it will achieve the expected result, but I don't expect it to occur immediately...
Professional goons would have a harder time punching at metal bars or plastic shields. It would be tougher on their knuckles, and the league could easily eject anyone who willingly removes his helmet for fight-night...
...CUSP measure had already been perceived as a compromise. Other communities in the state have enacted tougher restrictions, including a ban in Brookline on all smoking in restaurants...
Born warned that the feebleness of the amended bill would only lead to a reopening of the debate within a few years. Following the votes, Duehay predicted that an even tougher proposal will be submitted "in a lot shorter time than two years...
Congress's first move should be to cut off the two million dollars that funds "gun education" every year through the NRA. Tougher controls on handguns and assault weapons can be passed, if public support can be sufficiently demonstrated. We need to show Congressional representatives that, by voting against gun control under NRA pressure, they're voting against two-thirds of the nation's population...