Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government's star witness, McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, is not discussed in the brief. But sources tell TIME he will say that he accompanied McVeigh to case the Murrah building and that McVeigh told him he wanted to blow it up. Fortier's wife Lori, these sources say, will admit she helped McVeigh make the phony "Robert Kling" driver's license that McVeigh used to rent the Ryder truck...
...will sow suspicion in the jury about the possibility that someone else committed the crime. Jones points out that in 1983 a white supremacist named Richard Snell killed a pawnbroker whom he mistakenly believed to be Jewish and was executed on April 19, 1995. "Snell had threatened to blow up the Murrah building back in the 1980s," Jones says. "One of the hypotheses is, Did a group of people decide to give the old man a going-away gift...
Murphy is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene in which Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie...
...wrestling with the hero?" Murphy is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator, who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene where Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room...
...history of terrorist hostage taking. The prominence of the prisoners, along with the fact that the siege was technically taking place on the soil of a foreign embassy, turned what might have been simply a debilitating domestic emergency in Peru into an international scandal. It dealt a staggering blow to Fujimori, who has staked much of his political fortune on stamping out homegrown terrorism. At the same time, it lent worldwide recognition to a group of insurgents that Fujimori only two years ago dismissed as a spent force. With some 340 hostages still in rebel hands by week...