Word: explainer
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...right to bear arms has been sorely challenged by such incidents as the 1993 federal raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the 1992 standoff between Randy Weaver and federal agents at Ruby Ridge in Idaho. "There should be more investigation. The government needs to explain itself more fully," says Dunklee, a range instructor in Phoenix, Arizona. He has been an N.R.A. member since 1989, but only recently felt passionate enough to pay $500 for a lifetime membership. "If you can't protect yourself and the police can't either," he says, "then you're in trouble...
These trends help explain why Mark Lande, controller for Prairie Public Television, is not overreacting to the possible elimination of federal help for his station. Prairie Public TV gets a fifth of its funding directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a sixth from the Department of Agriculture for rural programming. "We're waiting to see what happens," Lande says. "There is some time to react to this." Similarly, Linda Coates, executive director of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, thinks she could manage without the $25,000 Washington contributes to the symphony's $380,000 annual budget. "We will weather...
Jones understands that he has set himself up for many such threats. He realizes too that in the coming months it will be necessary to explain repeatedly to Americans horrified by the blast why the Timothy McVeighs of this world deserve legal counsel. But the Louisiana-born, Texas-bred, aw-shucks county lawyer tells Time that he is fully prepared to stick with his role as champion of the underdog. After all, he has supported losing causes before: Nixon and Roger Dale Stafford, Oklahoma's most notorious death-row inmate, and his own three unsuccessful bids for electoral office. Says...
...Angeles Times reported last week that McVeigh frequented a house in Kingman where many people, including the suspect, bought, sold and used the drug crystal methamphetamine, a powerful form of speed increasingly popular in the area. If the allegation is true, it may explain how McVeigh was able to carry large amounts of cash and support himself without a job. According to Ralph McPeak, an associate of McVeigh's, many of these people fooled around with designing and detonating explosives. In February a bomb blew out the windows of McPeak's house; the authorities have not yet determined the origins...
Unfortunately, many conspiracy theorists don't have workplaces with which to appreciate this analogy. And anyway, giving far too much credit to one's enemies is a hallmark of the paranoid mind-set. This would explain the theory, in vogue among certain Bill Clinton haters, that a cabal of White House aides murdered Vincent Foster, the President's deputy counsel, and not only managed to make the killing look like a suicide but also persuaded numerous fbi agents and members of the U.S. Park Police to join in on the cover-up-all in all, a nifty feat...