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Lepine purchased the rifle, a model that is popular with ranchers for killing coyotes, at a local gun store three weeks ago, after undergoing a police-file check as required by law. Canada regulates the sale of handguns much more strictly than does the U.S., but hunting guns, including semiautomatics, are widely obtainable. In the wake of last week's misogynic massacre, there were calls for tighter rules on the availability of combat- style weapons as well as soul-searching debates about the victimization of women. But the most touching commentary involved very few words. After a candlelight procession...
...ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs in the knowledge that they are unlikely to attract scrutiny, since the Government is swamped with 7 million such reports a year, up from fewer than 100,000 a decade ago. Other places where drug dealers can often dump their cash include the currency exchange houses along the Southwest border and urban check- cashing and money-transmittal stores...
...variety of symptoms that confronted the Communists of East Germany and Czechoslovakia last week were not morbid, but they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just weeks ago has loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after another...
...night two and a half years ago, 3500 Harvard students lit candles and marched through the streets of Cambridge, protesting the shameful decision of the men who run this University not to sell their stock in companies operating in South Africa....Since that time, little has happened at Harvard. But in South Africa, conditions have changed--from horrible to even worse....The original demands of the 1978 protesters are the demands that count. Boycotting the ACSR should be the only step in a return to the confrontational public protest of years past...In the embarrassing glare, this university and others...
...upcoming game will mark the Crimson's second meeting with a Soviet team. Three years ago Harvard suffered a 5-4 defeat against a team which Cleary characterized in an interview yesterday as "an outstanding group of athletes...