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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Justice Department spokesmen insist they weren't flinching in Montana, just waiting for a grand jury in Billings to hand up federal indictments giving them legal authority to move against the fugitives, who otherwise faced only state-level charges. Whatever the reason for the long stalemate, it gave way last Monday when federal agents arrested two Freemen leaders, LeRoy Schweitzer, 57, and Daniel Petersen, 53. An undercover agent posing as a seminar attendee was said to have pulled a pistol after feigning car trouble near the Clark ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF SIEGE | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Professor Kilson continues to insist that "the perpetrators of cruel inhumanity [undertake] a viable redeeming process." (Kilson now distinguishes between the antebellum "institutionalizing perpetrators of slavocracy" and the rest of us perpetrators.) I have rejected being labeled such a perpetrator, and for this Kilson calls me "arrogant." I do not know what epithet I will merit for denying any "arrogance with a neo-White supremacist tilt to it," but I am unlikely to respond again, to a tenured Harvard professor or anyone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daniels, Kilson Should Try Dialogue Rather than Invective | 4/6/1996 | See Source »

Patty and Mike worry about what will happen when the girls enter adolescence. "It's going to be tough on them," Mike suspects. Should there come a point where the girls insist on being separated, says Carson, the possibility could be explored, though conjoined twins have never been successfully divided after early childhood. "They would have to say, 'We can't stand this anymore.'" Aside from the physical difficulty, such a separation, he says, would present a "major emotional trauma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOST INTIMATE BOND | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...enjoy the pool tables and the big screen televisions. But insist that house life also be about learning from your peers...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Beer, Foosball, Religion | 3/21/1996 | See Source »

However, members did not intrude into the lives of the undercover reporters, demand money, harass the reporters with phone calls or insist on attendance at any of their events...

Author: By Victor Chen and Justin D. Lerer, S | Title: In Spite of Controversy, Boston Church of Christ Offers Religious Haven | 3/20/1996 | See Source »

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