Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns frankly admits, "We have no leads whatsoever," but American experts assume that the terrorists this time are homegrown Saudis, probably Islamic extremists, as were the four who were beheaded. Some officials suspect the cases are linked, that it is the same group, and that the bombers were fulfilling their threat to punish Americans if the four suspects were executed. Saudi and U.S. officials do not rule out the possibility that another country was involved...
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: FBI investigators are looking into whether a homegrown Saudi terrorist movement might be behind Tuesday's attack. The London Al-Arab newspaper received a phone call on Wednesday claiming the previously unknown "Legion of the Martyr Abdullah al-Huzaifi" was responsible for the bombing, and threatening more attacks if the foreign troops "occupying the holy Saudi land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound...
...immediate wake of his stunning upset, however, a broad spectrum of homegrown and foreign skeptics fear that Netanyahu will pay lip service to the idea of peace but put the process on permanent hold. "It seems that the ripeness for a revolution was brief," says Ron Pundik, an Israeli negotiator at Oslo, "and the window of opportunity was open only temporarily." At 4 a.m. Thursday, after the tally turned decisively in Netanyahu's favor, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat issued orders to his aides not to comment on the outcome. "He knew that if they spoke, they'd express their frustrations...
Among some children's advocates, enthusiasm has faded for homegrown, experimental approaches. In 1988 Lisbeth Schorr and her husband, National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr, wrote Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, which enthusiastically described 24 new programs for children. Today half of them are gone, and Schorr has had a change of heart about what such initiatives can accomplish. "Foundations fund innovative programs for several years with the idea that when they work, public funds will pick up the cost and continue the program," she says. "But that hasn't happened for years. It's an illusion...
Give 'em while they can smell 'em. --A SIGN IN A FLORIST-SHOP WINDOW During the '70s Ken Babbs and I put out a little homegrown periodical called Spit in the Ocean. The idea was to have a different editor for each issue and let them call the deal. Dr. Timothy Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop...