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...drifted, living in motels, visiting Fortier and Nichols. According to Stickney, McVeigh took methamphetamines, and he began to frequent gun shows. The prosecution hopes to show that during that period he became more and more bitter about the Federal Government. When the FBI raided the Branch Davidian compound on April 19, 1993, precisely two years before the Oklahoma bombing, McVeigh was outraged. In March of 1993, he made a pilgrimage to Waco that, by chance, another visitor recorded on video. Sources tell TIME that photographs show McVeigh near Waco handing out bumper stickers that asked, IS YOUR CHURCH ATF APPROVED...
...incursion by a force of elite Revolutionary Guards. The N.L.A.'s officers claim they have launched more than 100 cross-border operations against Iran in the past several years. The Iranians have responded with terrorist strikes, Scud missiles and, in January, a mortar assault on the N.L.A.'s fortified compound in downtown Baghdad, causing minor damage...
...Albania edged closer to collapse, the U.S. and several European nations staged dramatic evacuations of their citizens. Italian helicopters ferried out many, while ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet sent choppers into the American compound in Tirana. When the flights began drawing ground fire on Friday, evacuations were suspended for the day. But Berisha had already sent his daughter Argita and son Shkelzen to Italy on a commandeered ferry...
China's top leadership, now that Deng Xiaoping is gone, looks like the ducks on a quiet pond in Zhongnanhai, the palatial government compound in Beijing. The ducks swim along serenely and smoothly. But below the surface their legs are paddling furiously, spreading unseen turbulence. They may or may not change places in their parade, but everyone watching knows that real effort goes into...
...time the boy was born, in 1904, the empire was moribund, preyed upon by the very foreigners it despised. But the boy was remembered not just because he was a good student like his ancestor but because he liked to turn somersaults. He would roll out of his family compound, into footpaths and away into the countryside and then back home again, turning and turning and turning. And his life would be one of many somersaults: away from home, never to return, over the seas, into politics, into war, in and out of danger, in and out of power...