Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Gun Deaths in England Message-ID: <2275@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 12:21:16 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2275 Posted: Fri Jan 4 12:21:16 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 23:52:42 EST References: <756@noscvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 13 > Probably the majority of gun deaths in England are caused neither > by the police nor ordinary citizens, but are due to Libyan diplomats. > > Jim Michael In England as in America a recent concern has been lead poisoning among children, caused by both vehicle emissions and peeling lead paint. A committee was set up to study this and 'New Scientist' (or was it 'Punch'?) remarked that the group included every government ministry "except the Ministry of Defence and the Northern Ireland Office, and these two are already conferring about the current outbreak of lead poisoning in Ulster".