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...informed, savvy professionals, but occasionally their zeal exasperates, rather than impresses, even congressional allies. Last fall, the N.R.A. repeatedly tried to attach a bill loosening gun regulations onto a proposed, long-overdue revision of the federal criminal code. Several senatorial supporters of the N.R.A., including Republicans Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, were upset at the tactic, fearing that years of work on the code would be sunk by this extra weight. Neither the new code nor the N.R.A. bill ever made it to a Senate vote. Two other N.R.A. supporters, Republican Robert Dole of Kansas...
...these shootings leave scars, and they ought to. Why are all these handguns still around? Why can 't creatures like Hinckley be reached before they reach others? When the President en tered the hospital, he told his friend, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt: "Don't worry about me. I'll make it." By the weekend the country was thinking the same thing, with the same uncertain bravery...
...course, that was precisely why he was picked for the job. After Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt called Watt to his office and sized him up, he excitedly phoned the President-who had never set eyes on the keen lawyer-and said he had found just the right man. Watt was razor smart, Laxalt told the President, a steely manager who knew his field. Best of all, Laxalt declared, Watt could take pressure: he had the hide of a rhino...
...under the new proposal, he will change plans, find a job this spring "and try to save enough to help pay for the rest of my education." But, he notes, with his limited qualifications work is hard to find in the Detroit area. Greg Madonna, at the University of Nevada at Reno, has a similar problem. His father, an Air Force colonel, makes $31,000 a year and has four children, three of whom will be in college this coming fall. Says Madonna: "My parents pay for my room, which is $381 a semester, not including food. That...
...Sierra Nevada is the nation's largest and most majestic mountain range. Towering above the Smokies and the Adirondacks, higher than the Rockies, nearly as long as the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps combined, the Sierras form a land of light. Snow-splashed peaks of shining white granite rise jaggedly above the desert to the east. To the west, forests of pine and redwoods and roll to meet the San Joaquin...