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With the arrest last week of two of the group's leaders and an escalating fbi presence around the Clark farm, Justus Township is no longer merely the headquarters for the Freemen's crooked amalgam of extremism and thievery. It's also the first major testing ground for federal law enforcement in the nervous aftermath of two disasters--the deadly shootout with white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the Branch Davidian inferno near Waco, Texas, in which more than 75 people were killed. In its handling of such standoffs, the Justice Department is at pains...
Another Zyuganov colleague is General Valentin Varennikov, a former commander of Soviet ground troops who was acquitted of charges arising from his involvement with the putsch against Gorbachev in August 1991. Varennikov perhaps forgot how many audiences his party is now addressing and assured an assembly of retired military officers in mid-March that they should not be misled by the moderate propaganda they have been hearing from communist leaders. "You have read only our minimum program," said Varennikov, his dress uniform glittering with medals. "But there is also a maximum program that has never been published. Let's take...
This is a lousy way to ground a policy process: taking what is under one's own control and subjecting it to veto by a party with a different constituency and different interests. The Shackle is a self-imposed corrosive on the council's credibility; by subjecting council resolutions to such a potentially damning process, council members betray a terrible insecurity over where their true base of support really lies. The Shackle seeks the Dean's endorsement as a poor substitute for what it should be spending time seeking: endorsement and validation by students...
...terms of strategy, the Crimson is hoping to maintain control of ground balls and use the offense to control the game's pace and to score...
Harvard will be thwarted in its efforts by the nature of Notre Dame's team, a "very patient team." Thus the game will revolve around gaining control of the ball and in particular around "coming up with ground balls," as Linzee pointed...