Word: questions
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...Scottsdale, Ariz., National Rifle Association President Joe Foss knows exactly where he stands on the question of gun control. A highly decorated World War II fighter pilot, a former Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League, and a retired brigadier general, Foss speaks with the relish of a man with unyielding convictions. "I say all guns are good guns," he pronounces. "There are no bad guns. I say the whole nation should be an armed nation. Period...
...work." But in Washington legislation is an art of compromise, and you cannot do much logrolling by digging in your heels. So Baker can also be more accommodating, recognizing the public's changing mood on gun owners' rights. "There are no absolute rights," he acknowledges. "It's a question of where you draw the lines...
...question for the N.R.A. is whether it will continue to speak for a large body of opinion or dwindle into sound and fury from the margins. That will probably depend on whether it can match its voice to the sentiments of people who are citizens as well as gun owners. If the N.R.A. has the appeal of a faith, it also has the weaknesses of many religions. Faith can be too blunt and brittle, too full of certainties to engage all the dense dilemmas of American life. In a matter as complex as gun control, the mind that allows room...
...restive, more insistent in their demands. Their sights are often set, as they were in East Berlin, on the efforts of Communist officeholders to cling to their old jobs, or to any jobs. Yet the protesters also seem intent on bringing about open confrontations, and this has thrown into question just how orderly life in these countries will remain...
...East Germany, even before the raid, the Modrow government acceded to demands that the issue of resurrecting a state security ministry be left until after elections are held on May 6. Even so, the question of order loomed larger, and the spectacle of the rampage discomfited the government and opposition alike. Said Konrad Weiss, a leader of the Democracy Now movement and an organizer of the protest that preceded the riot: "We found out that radicals in this country can easily misuse a peaceful demonstration...