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...horizon. fbi agents wearing flak vests and side arms who kept watch on the place last week saw a farmstead sprawl of family houses, cabins, trailers and some outbuildings in the midst of 960 acres of open land. All of it once belonged to Ralph Clark and his brother Emmett, busted wheat farmers turned fringe ideologues. Visitors say that these days Ralph Clark sometimes wears a lawman's five-pointed star, to signify that he's the law. For him and the 10 or so other Freemen holed up inside, some of them for more than a year, the compound...
Federal authorities arrested Christopher Johnson on arson charges, accusing him of having set fire last August to Alabama's Randolph County High School, the school beset with racial discord after its principal, Hulond Humphries, threatened to cancel a prom over interracial dating. Emmett Johnson, the suspect's father and founder of a local protest group called the Black Panther Militia, asserted that the arrest was a frame...
...Wenner's name appears two places below Walters'; the 28-year old founder of Rolling Stone was then known to his staff as "Citizen Wenner," we reported. That year his publishing interests grossed $6 million; for 1993 the figure was more than $100 million. When another magazine editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., was chosen in 1979, he was 35 and ran an irreverent, relatively obscure, right-wing monthly called the American Spectator; now, with a rich subject like Bill Clinton to sustain it, the American Spectator's circulation has grown to 10 times what it was in 1979, and conservatives...
With Ross expertly stroking egos, Warner prospered astonishingly, but his highly personal, unbusinesslike style had its darker side. Bruck provides the most detailed account yet of an illegal cash-skimming operation at the Mob-run Westchester Premier Theater in the 1970s. Ross's best friend, Warner executive Jay Emmett, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud arising from the scheme, and Bruck leaves the unmistakable impression that Ross himself was deeply involved, which Ross steadfastly denied. (Ross cut off Emmett summarily when Emmett began cooperating with the prosecution...
...tell Emmett Koen about the chaos theory of air travel. He and thousands of other flyers lived it last week when American Airlines flight attendants staged the largest U.S. airline strike in nearly five years, a walkout that threatened to paralyze the nation's largest airline and ruin many a traveler's Thanksgiving holiday...