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- <text id=91TT0613>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: American Notes:Guns
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- GUNS
- Casualties on The Home Front
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The Persian Gulf war ended with a stunningly low U.S. death
- rate. But the home front is producing far grimmer battle
- statistics. According to a federal study released last week,
- gunshot wounds are the prime cause of death among both black
- and white teenage boys. Young black males are still 11 times
- as likely to be murdered with a gun as are white youths. Yet
- the firearm death rate among all male teenagers increased more
- than 40% from 1984 to 1988, exceeding the mortality rate from
- natural causes. "Where are the yellow ribbons of hope and
- remembrance?" asked Health and Human Services Secretary Louis
- W. Sullivan in announcing the statistics. "Where is the
- heartfelt commitment to supporting the children of this war?"
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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