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American drug warriors, welcome to your nightmare--a do-it-yourself guerrilla narcotic spread by paranoid insomniacs who think they see federal agents through every keyhole, even when it's just the Domino's Pizza man. In cities large and small across the West and Midwest crank belt, from Oregon to Iowa, where the drug is known as the poor man's cocaine in towns that barely had cocaine in the first place, the drug arrives nonstop from every direction and by every imaginable route. Wrapped by the ounce and the pound in duct-tape eggs that can be stashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Berezovsky?s money was one of the most significant factors in Yeltsin?s reelection in 1996, but Yeltsin fired the oil and media baron from a government position late last year. ?Now Berezovsky?s won a powerful government post at a time when he?s waging a political guerrilla war against Yeltsin,? says Quinn-Judge. ?He may be a lone operator, but he?s an extremely effective one.? And that?s bad news for the Russian president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin's Nemesis Scores a Coup | 4/30/1998 | See Source »

When the communist guerrilla, then known only as Brother No. 1, took power in April 1975, he vowed to turn back the clock to "Year Zero." In the name of a bizarre blend of peasant romanticism and radical Maoism, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror intended to give birth to an agrarian utopia. At the point of their guns, they emptied Cambodia's cities, abolished money and markets, shut down schools and Buddhist monasteries and forced the entire country to wear black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Butcher Of Cambodia | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against FCC equipment seizures and on how to send programs over the Internet drew guerrilla broadcasters from eight Western and Midwestern states--mirroring a similar East Coast conference held in Philadelphia a week earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free America | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Airwaves, and mounted a how-to Website www.radio4all.org) When the FCC sought an injunction against his station (motto: "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over"), a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., turned the agency down on First Amendment grounds. "This is about free speech," says Dunifer, presiding at the guerrilla gathering. "The FCC excludes all but the wealthy from having a voice. It should open the spectrum to noncommercial community radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Free America | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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