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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1981
Page
4
The piece weighs crime data from the FBI showing a 10 percent rise and a 13 percent jump in violent crime, argues that gun laws alone fail, cites Baltimore parolee crimes, Hinckley’s firearms arrest, and ends with a golf bag parable about public reaction and misplaced blame on firearms.
Enrique Guatemala of the Farabundo Marti Front admitted guerrillas obtain arms from the socialist bloc. The State Department white paper linked Soviet bloc countries to arms supply in El Salvador, despite denials from Cuba Nicaragua and Vietnam.
The article argues that Robert McNamara centralized defense control between 1961 and 1968, diminishing the Joint Chiefs of Staff and concentrating budgeting and planning in the secretary of defense. It credits Caspar Weinberger with reversing this trend, advocating broader input from JCS and service secretaries and praising his decentralization of decision making.
Ashley Cooper reflects on the space shuttle Columbia launch as glory jest and terror, then nimbly shifts to a humorous account of raccoons raiding garbage cans and a parent’s view on children’s best years for yard work.
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