Word: forts
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...Civil War starts when Confederate guns fire on Fort Sumter...
...great 19th century commemorator in sculpture was the Irish-born Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). His deepest memorial was dedicated to the Union Army's Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who led the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, made up entirely of black volunteers, in a death charge on the ramparts of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. It is an extraordinary work, not only because of its sculptural mastery and its integration of Renaissance motifs into a modern matrix, but also for its content: one of the very few 19th century American treatments of blacks in art that neither mocks nor condescends...
...local responsibility. There is a good reason why America's Founding Fathers wanted it that way. They knew that power corrupts. Perhaps the answer to the bureau's problems is to make it perform better by downsizing it. Isn't that the rationale for downsizing corporate America? GARY SCHWARTZ Fort...
...Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents, FBI agents, SWAT teams, armored personnel carriers and bloodhounds. "This is not the Alamo, and I'm not Davy...
...FORT DAVIS, Texas: An aerial search turned up no sign of the last remaining Republic of Texas fugitive, tentatively identified as 21-year-old Richard Keyes. Department of Public Safety officials have scaled back their ground search for Keyes out of fear that the Davis Mountains' rough terrain would make it impossible to rescue any injured personnel. Authorities have still not given a positive identification for the fugitive killed Monday during a brief gunbattle, saying only that he is a "middle-aged white male." That suggests the dead man is fugitive Mike Matson, a 48-year-old resident of California...