Word: berge
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...leader of the white supremacist group called the Order, also known as the Silent Brotherhood, Bruce Pierce, 30, is believed to have been one of the men who gunned down Denver Talk Show Host Alan Berg in his driveway last June. Pierce has been on the run since April 1984, when he failed to appear for sentencing after pleading guilty in Spokane to charges of counterfeiting. As law-enforcement agencies intensified their probe of right-wing terror groups, they came to consider Pierce the most wanted man in the West...
...gang's founder, Robert J. Mathews, 31, was killed during a gunfight with federal agents on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution...
...Francisco. Ostrout was also charged with the sensational $3.6 million heist last July of a Brink's truck in Northern California. The arrests culminated an investigation that included the arrest in late November of Gary Lee Yarborough, allegedly a Brotherhood leader and a suspect in the murder of Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show personality...
...reason for the spin-off spree is that many conglomerates have taken a beating in the stock market. Investors are increasingly disillusioned with the notion that a single management can successfully handle a grab bag of companies. Observes Norman Berg, a professor at Harvard Business School: "In the 1960s and 1970s, the stock market favored growth by acquisition. Now the liquidation value of companies is thought to be greater than the sum of their parts...
...last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged in the case...