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...drug merchants seem more interested in protecting themselves from trigger-happy rivals than from the cops. But the trend has prompted police to change their tactics. The prevalence of bulletproof vests not only forces officers to aim for the head if a gun-wielding suspect does not fall after being shot in the chest. It also, says Hubert Williams, president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, makes them more likely to shoot first...
...your pipper on him! Shoot him! Shoot him!" yelled my copilot, Denny ("Dooley") Jackson, as the enemy tried to break left. But I had him in the 100-mil circle of my gunsight. I squeezed the trigger, and felt the stutter of the machine guns and watched the plane belch smoke. The world was in color again; the G-forces had receded; my stomach was back where it belonged. Victory was mine. The radio link to the other plane came alive. "Yee-haw!" taunted the loser of this aerial gunfight, a trucking-company official from Tucson...
Virtually every minority group finds itself under fire. For blacks, the trigger is often affirmative action: whatever their backgrounds or abilities, black students may find themselves viewed as beneficiaries of lowered standards. Last fall the University of Virginia accepted more than half the blacks who applied but only one-third of the whites, even though the blacks' average Scholastic Aptitude Test scores were 194 points below the whites'. At a time of rising competition, and with no sense of the past injustice that affirmative action seeks to redress, white students use such statistics as battering rams. "Affirmative action is organized...
...inflammatory rhetoric showed that tempers are still hair-trigger short in the Middle East -- while arms proliferation speeds virtually uncontrolled, rendering the region a tinderbox. Not only Iraq, but also Egypt, Iran, Israel, Libya and Syria have chemical weapons, and all possess the means to deliver chemical warheads to enemy targets, either by missile or by aircraft. Suddenly, Israel's long-presumed nuclear capability, still a monopoly despite Saddam's best efforts, does not seem to be an effective deterrent. "The situation is similar to the balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the mid-1950s," says Gerald...
...week that Mexico will consider negotiating a free-trade agreement with the U.S. Though the Government has agreed to a similar pact with Canada, reaching an accord with Mexico may prove much tougher. Mexicans fear the arrangement would threaten their autonomy, while American workers are worried that it could trigger a flood of cheap labor into the U.S. Even so, a free- trade accord has appeal, since it could lead to a North American common market at a time when Europe is forging its own economic bloc...