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...really is like being in a colony," says Trish Rippie, a Tonopah real estate agent. What makes this presence particularly stifling, she says, is that it runs directly counter to the independent character of the region and of the people who moved here for the low taxes, the lack of rules--Nye has no zoning laws--and the overall sense of freedom. "I think just about everybody here would like to see a revolution and have the Federal Government washed away," she says. "But nobody really wants a shooting war. We'd be annihilated...
...Joel Breshin, head of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, finds the moniker "almost laughable" as a militia title. And he maintains that, in his state at least, the skinheads who might find the name attractive "don't have the know-how" to pull off the derailment. A veteran FBI agent not assigned to the case was even more dismissive. "Sons of Gestapo," he snorted. "Bullshit. If somebody really wanted to get us chasing our tail, they'd have signed it Arizona Militia...
That left those following the crime right back where they started. For the 90-agent, Oklahoma City-size FBI contingent assigned to the case, that meant, amid the sand, saguaros and 114-degree heat of the Arizona desert, examining every piece of debris as huge cranes lifted the wreckage, and interviewing every possible witness. The agents projected a certain assurance. "I don't know whether the motive is a disgruntled employee or an act of terrorism--but we will find out," said Robert Bryant, the FBI's top counterterrorism officer. High bureau officials estimated that the case could be wrapped...
...hoped their confidence is not misplaced. Back in Dunsmuir, the FBI agent's interview with John Signor about his article progressed positively enough. He provided a list of his subscribers, including the 30 who live in Arizona. He shared what he knew about the tracks outside Phoenix. He remained polite when, almost as an afterthought, the agent asked if he had an alibi for early Monday morning. (He does.) But looming over the conversation was a fact Signor did not have to mention to the agent, since it is clearly stated in his article on the derailment...
...series or movie. "In the eyes of many people he's still a murder suspect," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president at McCann-Erickson advertising. "Why should advertisers associate themselves with that kind of problem when they don't have to?" Offers a top movie agent: "I don't have a clue who would touch this guy in this business. We're not career-salvation artists; we're agents...