President Clinton: Laying Down the Law

Trying to shed his party's reputation as law-and-order wimps, President Clinton steps forward with a tough new plan to fight crime

President Clinton could not have known, of course, that the week he picked to talk about crime would be the week crime was what everyone was talking about. On Tuesday, there was the man in fatigues who shot up a McDonald's in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The same day in Kansas City, Missouri, a 15-year-old went to the movies with his mother -- and shot her as they watched the film. "I don't know why I did it," he said. On Thursday in Burlingame, California, a man walked into a real estate office, shot one broker and wounded another before trying to kill...

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