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...country are discarding the old .38 for semiautomatic weapons, and the DEA started a year ago to rearm its agents with the Colt SMG, a submachine gun designed by Colt Industries specifically for the agency. It is small enough to fit under a coat, yet packs quite a wallop...
...Dees of the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center, sued the Klan on grounds of conspiracy to violate the marchers' right to free expression. In Atlanta last week, U.S. district judge Charles Moye unsealed the verdict: Klan and Klansmen owe the marchers $950,400 in damages. It was the second wallop of a verdict against the K.K.K. lately. In a case also handled by Dees, an Alabama jury last year awarded $7 million to the late Beulah Mae Donald, whose son Michael was lynched in 1981. Jubilant last week, Dees nevertheless insisted he believes "the Klan has a right to exist...
WYOMING. A humorless ideologue who has criticized even Reagan for insufficient dedication to weapons systems, Malcolm Wallop has come under fire for not tending to the grass roots. Though he is not wildly popular, he remains a slight favorite over his Democratic challenger, state senator John Vinich...
...have already sharply criticized the Park Service for waiting too long before moving to contain the latest blazes. "I question the wisdom of sticking to the policy in a year like this, with these severe drought and weather conditions," said Montana Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat. Wyoming Senator Malcolm Wallop, a Republican, agreed, adding his worry about the impact of the fires on the local economy. "We've had a catastrophe in our tourist industry," he said...
...Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...