Word: fueled
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...naturally turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren has been able to tap into that nagging insecurity in America that has helped fuel the militia movement...
Enough people are mad enough, in fact, to fuel what is becoming an irresistible tax-cutting drive. Some reduction in the estate tax is nearly certain to be part of any 1997 budget-balancing deal, and it is possible that relief will be granted even if no budget compromise is reached. "I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress," says Bill Archer, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee...
...State Department was skeptical of Hwang's warning. United Nations inspectors believe North Korea was left with only enough plutonium to fuel about two bombs after it agreed to freeze its nuclear-weapons program in 1994. The Pentagon saw no evidence that Pyongyang was preparing for an attack and did not order the 37,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea to a higher alert level...
Phone records will show that McVeigh, Nichols and Fortier made hundreds of calls around the country to various establishments that sold fertilizer, chemicals, explosives, remote-control switches, racing fuel and 55-gal. plastic drums. Many of these calls were charged to a prepaid phone card issued in the name of Daryl Bridges by the Spotlight, a far-right publication. The FBI maintains this card was actually used by McVeigh and Nichols. McVeigh allegedly used the card to call Nichols to pick him up in Oklahoma City. Agents have documented McVeigh's and Nichols' travels, and many of the calls charged...
...case. Most important, Jones will be able to excoriate the FBI's forensics lab. The critical Justice Department report concludes, for example, that an investigator in the Oklahoma City case lacked an adequate scientific basis for stating that the bomb was made out of ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil. Ammonium nitrate was found at the scene, but the bomb could have been made out of another explosive that contains it, such as dynamite. The report says the investigator reached his conclusion in part by reasoning backward from the fact that a receipt for ammonium nitrate fertilizer had been found...