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Even with the evidence of local support, the FBI moved gingerly all week. The situation has escalated at a time dangerously close to the April 19 anniversary of the Waco debacle and last year's bombing in Oklahoma City, a red-letter date on the calendar of the extremist right. This time the FBI has been taking no chances. Trained negotiators have stayed in touch with the fugitives via a phone line that was kept operational when the regular lines to the house were cut off. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, an elite assault force involved in the Ruby...
MOVIES AND TV HAVE FINALLY DISCOVered that gays and lesbians are more than stereotypes and punch lines--although there is progress yet to be made. It's just proof that Pat Buchanan and his extremist cronies are profoundly out of touch with mainstream America. The world is changing, and it's leaving Buchanan, Limbaugh and the rest of the radical right behind in the past. SCOTT MILLER St. Louis, Missouri
...part of the Contract with America? Clinton wants it. The Republicans can moan when he uses it and moan when he doesn't. At best, Clinton will have it for one appropriations cycle before the election, and he can use it to reject programs he will describe as extremist...
...Iranian diplomacy more than a little embarrassing. Just before the murderous last spate of bombings in Israel, Hasan Habibi, Vice President of Iran, visited Syria for what amounted to a pep rally for Middle East terrorism. Gathered at Iran's embassy in Damascus were the leaders of such Palestinian extremist groups as Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and Hamas...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The army issued a report showing minimal evidence of extremist activity in the service but reported an undercurrent of subtle racism in the ranks. The report came from a task force commissioned last December after the killings of a black couple near a Fayetteville, North Carolina military base. The study concluded that although membership in hate groups is small, rules regarding active or passive participation in such groups must be clarified. However, because such rules come from the Department of Defense -- and not the Army -- the panel recommends that the Army push Defense to tighten...