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Shooting instructors observe that women view guns more coldly, and cautiously, than do men. Some suggest that women make better shots. "Men come in with all sorts of bad habits," says Michael Freire of the Tamiami Range and Gun Shop in Florida. "They see themselves as either Rambo, Roy Rogers or Daniel Boone." Women, he adds, take their time in learning to shoot. "Discipline is the whole point of training," explains Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist who has taken shooting lessons. "It gives me the feeling that I could take care of myself." Most female gun owners, say police officials...
Many Floridians are planning to do just that. Thousands have signed up for firearms courses, a requirement for the concealed-weapons permit, and business is brisk at shooting ranges around the state. At the Tamiami Range and Gun Shops in Miami, classes have been booked solid since early June. "I'm just afraid of all the wackos out there," says Eliseo Santana, 29, a computer repairman who is applying for the permit. Adds August Zittel, a retiree from St. Petersburg: "I don't want to become another statistic...
...next day, as the Pope traveled to Miami's Tamiami Park to celebrate his first public Mass on the journey, thousands of well-wishers lined the highways, occasionally mobbing his Popemobile -- a white Mercedes-Benz 230G equipped with protective wraparound glass. The weather, however, was less forthcoming. A violent thunderstorm caused abandonment of the service due to the threat of lightning. (A day earlier, in San Antonio, where the Pope was scheduled to celebrate a Mass on Sunday, winds toppled two twelve-story towers behind his outdoor altar...
...course, there must be lawyers. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys complained about a plan to erect a 100-ft.-high cross at the state- owned Tamiami Park for a papal Mass in Miami. Under a compromise agreement, Catholic officials will cover the cross with black fabric until the day of the actual event. Finally, no one would know anything about the whole undertaking without the media. More than 16,000 members of the press have been accredited. Spann says they have all requested a personal interview with the Pope...
...festival site was roomy, if unorthodox. But for many in the milling crowd of 5,000, the cavernous airplane hangar in Miami's Tamiami Park had a symbolic significance. In the spring of 1980, the structure served as one of the first receiving centers for the tattered cargo of the "freedom flotilla," the 125,000 Marielito refugees named after the Cuban port of Mariel from which they fled to the U.S. Last month the immigrants organized a daylong festival to thank Miami for its support and to display the talents of the boatlift's artists. Said Choreographer...