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...himself hard on his own time, hoping to qualify for the Army Special Forces. After he failed to make it, friends say, McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated. His politics veered far rightward. He claimed that the Army had implanted a computer chip in his buttocks. He was distraught over the 1993 destruction of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and, about that time, bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon, a gun banned by law last year. Those who knew him in Michigan said McVeigh was always armed. But Linda Haner-Mele, 35, his supervisor at a security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIMOTHY MCVEIGH AND HIS RIGHT-WING ASSOCIATES: WHO ARE THEY? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

Judge Lance Ito spent the day meeting with distraught jurors privately in an attempt to calm down the panel so that the trial can continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O.J. ON HOLD | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Find out when your roommate is going to meet the sinning succubus, and (inadvertently, of course) show up at the same place with Sally. Sally will be utterly distraught and run into your arms. Take it from there! As My mother always says. "Truth is sometimes painful, but it's often the best medicine." Thanks...

Author: By Melrosing IN Mather, | Title: Norma Knows | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Born said many municipal officials were "distraught" as potential spending cuts discussed at the meeting, most notably a proposal to eliminate the Department of Housing and Urban Development...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Capitol Draws Councillors | 3/14/1995 | See Source »

...mujahedin still refused to turn over prisoners, efforts were made to buy our people back. They were ransomed with flour, kerosene, uniforms, sometimes money, even, though rarely, with weapons. In the Chechen war, the military command will not even talk about the fate of captured officers and soldiers. Distraught mothers have had to go to Chechnya to free their sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: LESSONS NOT LEARNED | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

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