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...decided to telephone the gunman through the Secret Service radiotelephone link. When Harris kept refusing to say a word to Reagan on the telephone, the President's security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which Ike, while President, had often played the pine-studded course...
...police and medical personnel routinely refuse to take attacks on gays and lesbians seriously. There is not much difference, after all, between Jerry Falwell's statement that God tells him to hate homosexuals, and a man in New York hearing God tell him the same thing. picking up an Uzi machine-gun, and moving down people as they leave a gay bar. One leads inexorably to the other, particularly since few people will defend homosexuals Parallels between the active gay rights movement in Germany up to the 1930s and the Nazi genocide (beginning as early as 1933) against homosexuals...
...jets in a dogfight over the Gulf of Sidra last August. Haig and others have spoken of a "hit list" of potential U.S. targets. Although Libya has labeled these claims "insolent in the extreme," security around American leaders has been significantly tightened in recent weeks. Secret Service agents carrying UZI submachine guns have been notably more prominent at Reagan's side during public appearances. Air Force One and other official planes have been equipped with devices to foil heat-seeking missiles. Haig and Weinberger, both of whom are scheduled to travel overseas within the next two months, have been...
...arms bazaar" that TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst had ever seen was a collection of grimy peasant tents spread out on a dusty knoll outside the town of Mahabad, in the Kurdish mountains of western Iran. There, a clientele of mercenaries and international agents milled about, examining Israeli-made UZI automatics, Chinese and Soviet AK-47s, boxes of grenades, pre-World War II Czech-made Brno rifles and spanking new U.S. Colt .45 automatics. "For the serious customer," says Van Voorst, "a salesman would casually discharge a few rounds into a nearby hillside...
...intimately linked in Israel. One sign of the military's pervading influence always startles foreign visitors. Weapons seem to be everywhere. When two 18-year-old female soldiers turned up for dinner recently at a Jerusalem home, they said, "Shalom," and casually handed their host their two uzi submachine guns. Youngsters learn to use firearms in training camps during high school...