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l ADec. 13 Style article about the Nobel Peace Prize Concert inOslo
incorrectly said that Barry Ma- nilow performed “I Write the Songs” there. The songwas “Can’t SmileWithout You.”
l The caption on a photo of President Obama with South Ko-
rea’s president and first lady,with the continuation of aNov. 12 Page One article about Obama’s effort to secure a free-trade agreement
with that country, misspelled the name of President Lee Myung- bak.
l The television highlights in the Oct. 27 Style section, indescribing
anepisodeof “I’dDoAnything”on BBC America in which Andrew Lloyd Webber casts a revival of “Oliver!,” incorrectly referred to theoriginalmusicalasLloydWeb- ber’s. The early-1960s show’smu- sic and lyricswere by Lionel Bart.
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Mexico, federal firearms regula- tors are proposing an emergency requirement that certain gun dealers along the southwestern border report bulk sales of so- called assault weapons begin- ning as soon as January. Dealers would be required to
alert authorities when they sell within five consecutive business days two or more semiautomatic rifles greater than .22 caliber with detachable magazines, ac- cording to the draft obtained by The Washington Post. Semiauto- matic rifles such as AK-47s and
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2010 Gun regulators propose emergency plan
Dealers on border would report sales of bulk assault weapons
BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI AND SARI HORWITZ
AR-15s are favored by drug-traf- ficking organizations fighting theMexican government. ATF chief spokesman Scot
Thomasson declined to com- ment. The plan by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revives a proposal that has languished at the Justice Department and in the Obama administration for several months, according to peoplewith knowledge of the proposal who spoke on the condition of ano- nymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter before it becomes public. The idea of such a requirement
is so controversial to many gun owners that administration offi- cials proceeded cautiously for fear of provoking the National Rifle Association, sources said. The proposal could mark the
gun lobby’s first major show- down with the administration.
On Thursday, ChrisW. Cox, the
NRA’s chief lobbyist, lambasted the plan as an attempt to create a national gun registry. “This administration does not
have the guts to build a wall, but they do have the audacity to blame and register gun owners for Mexico’s problems,” Cox said. “NRA supports legitimate efforts to stop criminal activity, but we will not stand idle while our Second Amendment is sacrificed for politics.” One of those pushing the ad-
ministration to actwasNewYork Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s office and his policy adviser, John Feinblatt, who first proposed such a requirement early in the administration. “Sixteen months ago, we called for it,” Feinblatt said. “It’s time to do it.” Under the plan, the ATF,
which enforces federal gun laws and regulates firearm dealers, would send what is called a
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five hours deliberating punish- ment for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin on Thursday after three days of court-martial proceedings at Fort Meade. Lakin was convicted of dis-
obeying orders—he had pleaded guilty to that count — and miss- ing a flight that would have got- ten him to his eventual deploy- ment. An Army commander,Maj. Gen. Karl Horst, still has to ap- prove the sentence returned by the jury and has the option to reduce it. Lakin could then ap- peal. He was to begin serving his sentence immediately. In videos posted on YouTube,
Lakin aligned himself with the “birther” movement, which ques- tions whether Obama is a natu- ral-born citizen, as the Constitu- tion requires for presidents, and said he was inviting his own court-martial. But Lakin saidWednesday that
despite his questions about Obama’s eligibility for office, he was wrong not to follow Army orders.He acknowledged that the Army was the wrong place to raise his concerns about Obama, asked to keep his job and said he was now willing to deploy. —Associated Press
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Border agent charged in ecstasy scheme Federal prosecutors said
Thursday that they have seized 700,000 tabs of ecstasy and charged a U.S. Customs and Bor- der Protection agent along with 13 others in a large-scale drug-
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“demand letter” to dealers along the border asking themto report the multiple sales, ATF officials said. Emergency approval would
last six months, after which the requirement would end unless other actionwere taken, the draft states. Approval from the Office ofManagement and Budget “has been requested by Jan. 5, 2011,” the document states. The ATF is expected to publish
in the Federal Register on Friday a notice about the plan, which would affect about 8,500 gun dealers. Although the ATF pro- poses that the rule would begin as early as January, comments about the proposed rule will be accepted for the next two months.
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Research editor Alice Crites contributed to this report.
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Police lead away Julia Boteo, 84, at a civil-disobedience protest outside a Chase bank in Los Angeles on Thursday. Protesters had lost homes to foreclosure or had battled banks over loan modifications.
trafficking scheme. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian
Yates said that authorities seized the ecstasy, worth more than $2.8 million, at a house in Cham- blee, Ga., northeast of Atlanta. Customs agent Devon Samuels
is charged with laundering drug money, smuggling cash and at- tempting to bring weapons onto an aircraft. Prosecutors say an officer pos-
ing as amoney launderer gave the 45-year-old Samuels $22,000, which they say he smuggled to Jamaica. Samuels is also charged with conspiracy to commit mar- riage fraud. Authorities say he was paid $900 to help a couple in a sham marriage deceive customs
officials. —Associated Press OKLAHOMA
A new formula for lethal injections Oklahoma officials said they
were ready to execute a convicted murderer Thursday using a drug combination that includes a seda- tive used to euthanize animals after a nationwide shortage of a key ingredient forced the state to tinker with the usual formula. John David Duty, who was sen-
tenced to die for strangling his cellmate about a decade ago, is believed to be the first person in
the United States whose execu- tion will include the use of pento- barbital. He was set to die Thurs- day night at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary inMcAlester. Oklahoma corrections officials
said they were certain the lethal injection would be successful, and they were confident in the experts who had testified during legal proceedings about its plans. Several states have been
scrambling since Hospira — the only U.S. manufacturer of the barbiturate normally used in exe- cutions—saidThursday that new batches of sodium thiopental could be available “in the first quarter” of next year. —Associated Press
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