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...Castro--who wildly warned Cubans last week that the exiles might even try to kill Elian rather than let him go--has still not pulled the trigger. A major sticking point last week was his insistence that Juan Miguel be accompanied by an entourage of some 30 relatives, officials and friends--including a dozen of Elian's first-grade classmates. And U.S. officials wondered privately whether Castro was serious about following through with his new proposal. Although Juan Miguel's U.S. attorney, Gregory Craig, presented a letter to the State Department in Washington, no one made a formal application...
...took over as secretary-general after Israeli planes killed his predecessor and mentor, Sheik Abbas Musawi, in 1992. In a 90-minute interview, Nasrallah strongly emphasizes Hizballah's commitment to working within the political system and avoiding any provocation, including Hizballah's preference for an Islamic state, that might trigger a return of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war. "We are for partnership," he says, "so that the Christians do not ignore the Muslims and the Muslims do not ignore the Christians." When it comes to discussing Israel, however, Nasrallah is vehement. "Let us be clear," he says...
...Maryland and Massachusetts shows that America's gun control lobby is quickly finding itself better served by seeking regulation through the states rather than Congress. In Maryland, the state's legislature approved Gov. Parris Glendenning's bill requiring all new guns sold in the state to have built-in trigger locks. And in a more controversial measure - with larger national ramifications - Massachusetts attorney general Thomas Reilly implemented a three-year-old set of regulations that puts guns under the purview of the state's consumer-products regulatory body. That move follows three years of appeals by the gun lobby against...
...went off during a firearms-training session. The company's safety manuals for the gun say that if the user removes the magazine from the gun, it cannot fire even if a round is left in the chamber. However, Perry found that if slight pressure is put on the trigger during removal, the gun can fire that round...
...While the issue may have some hope of catching steam at the federal level, it doesn't seem likely to take its place alongside school vouchers and trigger locks as major campaign issues. Both Janet Reno and Madeleine Albright have mentioned it as a growing crisis in recent weeks, but neither looks poised to make it one of their top issues. The Times story quotes one anonymous government official who seemed to sum up the feds' attitude toward the issue: "We have hundreds and hundreds of government analysts looking at drugs, arms, economic issues, but hardly anyone on this...