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FORT DAVIS, Texas: Two armored personnel carriers and a 15-member SWAT team have arrived at the Davis Mountains community where the standoff with the Republic of Texas faction continues. Timothy O'Rourke, a lawyer retained by "Ambassador" Richard McLaren, said that faction members are heavily armed and prepared to fight to the death if agents try to serve six warrants issued over Sunday's kidnapping of community residents Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe. McLaren was reportedly "very cooperative" in telephone negotiations with state agents and the FBI, talking about everything from the weather to political philosophy. Later, he issued...
...because he once argued that believers had to become independent of the Two to reach the "Level Above Human." According to Montana sociologist Robert Balch, when Bo and Peep, as the founders then called themselves, went into hiding amid an early crisis, a disciple named Aaron led a faction that abetted beer drinking, pot smoking and sex--all activities disapproved of by Applewhite and Nettles. Bo and Peep reappeared to scold their flock, and a large number of dissenters departed. Heaven's Gate's cyberspace rants against unspecified "Luciferians" may partly be aimed at these more worldly schismatics...
...thought that was what it was getting when it cobbled the check out of funds targeted for food, medical care and other basic needs for the hard-pressed, 10,700-member community, which suffers from 80 percent unemployment. The DNC may duck this bullet, thanks to a tribal faction that insi sts its business committee had no authority to cut the check in the first place. For its part, the DNC says that if the tribe won't take back the money, it will be spent on Native American voter registration and voter participation activities...
Such harsh criticism of a Bundesbank chief is rarely voiced in Germany. But Tietmeyer, 65, who survived an assassination attempt by the ultraleftist German Red Army Faction, is used to taking the heat for tough decisions. A senior economic-policy bureaucrat and later the top civil servant in the Finance Ministry, he was Germany's negotiator during the contentious exchange-rate talks of the 1980s. A staunch conservative on monetary policy, Tietmeyer nonetheless has supported European integration, and as far back as the 1970s sat on a committee that drafted an early plan for monetary union...
Nelson dismisses criticism that HSF was more politics as usual. He says he initiated this group only to defeat another faction, and that he dissolved HSF once PUCC disbanded at the end of the last academic year...