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...repellant that street gangs indoctrinate recruits with severe beatings, but it is more shocking to learn that the Marine Corps's "few and the proud" draw blood and inflict pain on new members [NATION, Feb. 10]. I am ashamed to think that a U.S. Marine would stoop to such gang mentality. PETER E. WEISS Holyoke, Massachusetts...
...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...
...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...