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...become an issue of the past. Unfortunately, a much greater threat now arises: the arms race within America's cities. Some fight gun control in the name of self-defense, claiming that handguns increase their security. The streets would be much safer if neighborhood gang leaders had to undergo background checks before they walked out with...
...military actions mandated by the United Nations or its own allies. Within the Hosokawa coalition, on the other hand, many, including the Prime Minister and chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Takemura, are more at home with Japan's current antimilitary constitution. Predicts Masaharu Gotoda, a senior L.D.P. politician: "Japan will undergo another political reorganization before the next election. All the parties will gradually cluster around two large political forces...
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa won a powerful victory when the lower house of Japan's parliament passed his four-bill reform package. The country's notoriously corrupt political system will undergo a major overhaul if the bills are passed by the parliament's upper house, as expected. Among the changes are a switch to single-member constituencies and a ban on corporate campaign donations to individual politicians...
...official response did little to calm fears. Health Minister Horst Seehofer recommended that anybody who had received blood products since 1982 undergo a test for HIV -- which caused a run on testing sites. Hospitals were laboriously checking records to identify patients who received blood from UB Plasma, but the task was huge and the records were not always clear on the source of the products used...
While the current plan has been more than two years in the making, it may undergo still more revision before it is finally adopted by the City Council...