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WASHINGTON (AP) — Close to 1 million
new semiautomatic assault-style rifles could flood
the United States if the Bush administration de
cides to end its suspension of such imports.
Gun importers have applications to bring in
965,000 of the weapons pending at the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to
spokesman Dick Pedersen.
The import suspension was imposed March 14
after public and police outcries over the in
creased use of the weapons such as semiautoma
tic versions of AK-47s and Uzi carbines in drug-
related violence, and the January slayings of five
schoolchildren in Stockton, Calif..
The suspension covered some 400,000 weap
ons, including about 300,000 for which import
permits already had been approved. Last week,
the administration expanded the suspension to
cover 240,000 separate weapons.
“We noticed the increase in these showing up
in crimes, an increase in demand, and we reacted
to it,” Pedersen said. “The main thing is that we
might be nipping the semiautomatic assault-type
rifle in the bud rather than have millions of them
flooding in here.”
Nevertheless, gun importers are continuing to
submit applications, he said Tuesday.
“It appears there have been a lot more applica
tions that came in after the ban,” Pedersen said.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire
arms is required by law to permit imports only of
weapons suitable or adaptable to “sporting pur
poses,” and it is studying the use of the semiauto
matic rifles to determine how they are being
used. The review should take two to three more
months.
Despite the uproar over such weapons, FBI
crime statistics reveal that most murders by fire
arms are still committed by people wielding
handguns. Of the 17,859 murders committed na
tionwide in 1987, 10,556 were committed with
firearms of which 7,807 were handguns, accord
ing to the FBI.
Editors, artists say comic strips
should deal with social issues
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WASHINGTON (AP) — About
100 newspaper editors sat down af
ter breakfast Wednesday — about
the time millions of their readers
were turning to the comic pages —to
discuss whether “Cathy” should be
political and what to do when the
kids grow up in “For Better or
Worse.”
Serious issues these, so there
wasn’t a single outburst of laughter
when members of the American So
ciety of Newspaper Editors attended
a convention workshop on what fun
nies they print.
How serious?
Well, the people who draw the
comics are referred to as “artists.”
Among those who review their
works for the syndicates that sell
them to newspapers are lawyers,
who have a field day with “Doones-
bury,” and editors, who sometimes
must negotiate with an artist to tone
down a character’s off-color lan
guage.
And newspaper editors who de
cide that a strip has gone too far and
yank it from the paper for a day or
two had better brace: some readers
are sure to hurl the ugly term “cen
sor.”
“Pulling a strip draws so much at
tention to it and to you as a censor,
that you’re reluctant to do it,” re
ported Marty Claus, managing edi-
Diabetes
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Group for Medical Research Fund
ing. She also will ask Congress to
support the recommendations for
funding by the National Institute for
Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Dis
eases Coalition.
In addition to asking for funding,
Brow will ask Congress to support
the American Disabilities Act, which
protects handicapped individuals
from discrimination in employment,
housing, transportation and public
accommodations. The Civil Rights
Acts of 1964 and 1968 protect per
sons on the basis of race, sex, na
tional origin and religion, but not on
the basis of handicap. The new act
ensures similar protection to the dis
abled.
Brow plans to ask Congress to
support a joint resolution of the
House and Senate to proclaim No
vember 1989 as National Diabetes
Month.
“I hope to bring home funds to
help fund research at A&M,” she
said. “There is not a cure as of yet,
but funding will help us Find one
sooner.”
For more information about the
A&M awareness group, contact
Shannon Brow at 846-2827. The
group meets at 7 p.m. every third
Tuesday of the month in Rudder
Tower.
tor for features and business at the
Detroit Free Press.
In any event, she said, readers are
more worldly than editors might
think; they often don’t care to be
protected.
“People will see that Toledo ran it
and Detroit didn’t and they’ll say,
‘Let me be the judge (of what’s off
base),’ ” Claus said.
She plugged for more blacks and
other minorities in the comics, re
porting that a month-long census of
all the characters on her paper’s
funny pages revealed that fewer
than 1 percent were non-white.
Ray Billingsley, the black artist be
hind “Curtis,” a comic strip about a
black kid, said the comics should
deal with social issues. He is itching
to do a story line on crack, the co
caine derivative, he said, but thinks
he’d better let Curtis, who. was cre
ated last October, get better estab
lished first.
“Let these strips be bold,”
Billingsley advised the editors. “The
public is more accepting than many
editors think.”
Lee Salem, editorial director of
Universal Press Syndicate, favors
giving artists their freedom, after
they’ve earned it. Artists want to deal
with AIDS, animal rights, drugs and
shoplifting, and they’re bound to do
it, he said.
Claus said they should have as
much freedom as columnists; after
all, she said, their names are on their
strips just like a columnist’s byline.
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Gorbachev
asks for calm
in Georgia
MOSCOW (AP) — President
Mikhail S. Gorbachev today ap
pealed for calm in Soviet Georgia
and for an end to nationalist
demonstrations that have claimed
at least 19 lives in the southern re
public, the Tass news agency said.
Also today, the Communist
Party chief of Soviet Georgia of
fered to t esign after local leaders
met to discuss the violence, the
Foreign Ministry said.
The appeal from Gorbachev
and the resignation offer came as
scattered strikes continued in
Georgia and funerals were read
ied for the people who were
killed during the suppression of
the protests Sunday.
In an address to the Georgian
people, which Tass said was pub
lished in the republic’s capital,
Gorbachev said pro-indepen
dence demonstrations “damaged
the interests of perestroika, dem
ocratization and renewal in the
country.”
Gorbachev said, “The interests
of the working people have noth
ing in common with attempts to
sever the existing ties of
friendship and cooperation
among our peoples, dismantle
the socialist system in the republic
and push it into the slough of eth
nic enmity.”
Gorbachev said “actions by ir
responsible persons” had to the
loss of life in Tbilisi, the republic's
capital, and he called on all inhab
itants of Georgia to show restraint
and common sense.
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