Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Richard Wayne Snell, a fanatic who allegedly conspired to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building 12 years earlier. He was executed the night of April 19, 1995, about 12 hours after the explosion. Kevin McCarthy, who has admitted his role in the Aryan Republican Army's Midwest gang of bank robbers, stayed in Elohim several times, where he was visited by many of his co-accused...
...past more evident than in Tiananmen square. It was here in April of 1976 where tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief over the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. That gathering soon snowballed into a public protest against Mao and the Gang of Four, triggering a tough government crackdown. Thirteen years later, Deng ordered a far more brutal crackdown in April 1989 when students gathered in the vast public square to demand democratic reforms. On Thursday, the square was surprisingly calm and accessible to the public, reports Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz...
TAMMY DRUMMOND, our Miami bureau chief, knows firsthand about the problems of the police in Haiti. When a gang of thieves surrounded her rented car in Port-au-Prince last year and stole a suitcase and a computer, she was immediately hauled into a police station by the cops and and accused of running over one of the robbers. "They eventually let me go," says Drummond, "but it was with much apprehension that I returned to report on the police for this week's issue." What she discovered is chilling. "Given the inadequate training and lack of resources," she says...
Brescia was indicted along with Mark William Thomas, one of the more eloquent gurus of the Aryan Nations movement. Thomas is accused of recruiting young men to rob banks on behalf of the Aryan Republican Army. Using handguns, wearing bulletproof vests and, at one point, Santa suits, the gang hit banks in Ohio, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin in 1994 and 1995. Brescia joined the gang in August 1995, after another indictee, Scott Stedeford, drove to Elohim City to pick...
...immigrated to the U.S. when he was six, he is articulate and soft-spoken, an idealistic 34-year-old science nerd who hopes someday to conduct cancer research. He is also principled and somewhat stubborn--so stubborn, in fact, that the state of Florida put him on a chain gang last year, and now holds him in a minimum-security facility...