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Federal investigators now believe last July's Centennial Olympic Park explosion (a possible witness is still being sought) and two other unsolved ATLANTA BOMBINGS may have been the work of a deranged loner, not a political extremist group as first suspected. After the bombings of an Atlanta abortion clinic and a gay nightclub, claims of responsibility were lodged by "units of the Army of God," a nom de guerre used by some violent antiabortion protesters. But agents scouring the South have identified no group with the motive, opportunity and means to have perpetrated the bombings. Investigators suspect the political rhetoric...
...godfather of Ma's daughter, Li Chung "Sandy" Pei '72, says that while Ma was no extremist, he certainly reflected the times...
...regime. The President's powers are subject to limits. Reflecting the political chaos of revolutionary days, Iran's system is a jumble of conflicting and confusing centers of power. This looseness is what enables Iranians to have semifree elections, but it also gives cover to the regime's extremist elements. Many Iranians fear that the system may ultimately paralyze Khatami. He calls himself an independent, although he is a member of a clerical group aligned with leftists, including those who held American diplomats hostage for 444 days in 1979-81. Khatami's advisers say he hopes to benefit from...
...Burlington, Iowa, grocer, Matsch, 66, was appointed to the federal bench by Richard Nixon in 1974, and has presided over cases ranging from school desegregation to murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does...
...determine when a "cult" becomes a religion, especially in a land where freedom of religion is sacrosanct? My Random House unabridged dictionary defines cult as "a particular system of religious worship" and then, seven lines later, as "a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox or extremist." A cult, in other words, is a religion and isn't one, depending on who's looking...