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Maloney's close encounter occurred the year before the bombing. In the spring of 1994 he ran an ad offering to sell a piece of property in the Ozark mountains of Missouri. "In the middle of nowhere," it read, "at the end of a rough road, at the bottom of a hollow...there may be a cave." When Maloney got a phone inquiry soon after, he asked if the caller's name was spelled "M-C-V-E-Y." "That's close enough," came the answer. In the fall of the same year, three men drove up to Maloney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHO IS ROBERT JACQUES? | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...think the Ad Board engages in some sketchy practices, listen to this recent incident of national fame: a week and a half ago, the F.B.I. released a "terrorist threat advisory" and a composite sketch of two men believed to be driving a U-Haul truck filled with enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel to blow up several small homes or one larger government complex--a bomb potentially on par with the one that killed 168 people in Oklahoma City only two years ago. After catching the men, the armed Federal agents discovered--much to their embarrassment, I would imagine...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Soap and Other National Disasters | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

...Republic wouldn't publish my letter. And when I bought a $425 ad, the editors wouldn't publish that either...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: A Holocaust of Scholarship | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Considering that areas amounting to 80% of Israel proper are lands confiscated from the Palestinians under ad hoc absentia laws (including property owned by the Israeli Parliament in West Jerusalem, and parts of the Ben-Gurion International Airport); would Levitin be also willing to extend his argument to non-Jewish (i.e. Palestinian) lands? or have I missed something here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Israeli Settlement Defies Geneva Accords | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...dishonored a noble organization with your libelous acts. In a more chivalrous age, we would meet you on the field of honor and settle this matter like men, once and for all. But since you have neither honor, nor courage, I guess we shall have to rely on the Ad Board for justice. --Chris Griffith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Investigate and Punish Peninsula Poster Vandals | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

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