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...city is at a junction now," says Winters, who lost his race for a Council seat in 1993. "Are we going to have local politics based on moderation, compromise, concession or are we going to back to absurdity, creating extreme factions on issues...
...teachers and school boards. Three-quarters of the young newcomers live in five states: California, New York, Florida, Texas and Illinois. Nonetheless, 43% of U.S. school districts have at least some non-English-speaking children. One in six U.S. teachers has non-English speakers in the classroom. In Columbus Junction, Iowa, where a third of the students are the offspring of Hispanic pork packers, principal Becky Furlong fears that federal budget cuts will wipe out her bilingual kindergarten. Meanwhile, at the elementary school in De Queen, Arkansas, principal Cindy Hale has no plans to teach the Latino children of local...
...search for "John Doe No. 2" ended as the man depicted in the sketches (tattooed, heavyset, wearing a baseball cap) turned out to be Army Private Todd Bunting, who happened to visit the Ryder truck agency in Junction City, Kansas, on the day before prime suspect Timothy McVeigh did. Bunting has been ruled out as a suspect, but the search for other accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing continues...
...that he apparently had nothing to do with theOklahoma City bombing. Quoting an unnamed FBI agent, the Associated Press reported that John Doe No. 2 is Todd Bunting, a private first class stationed at Ft. Riley, Kan. Federal officials said that the man just happened to be at the Junction City, Kan. truck rental office, near Ft. Riley,when suspect Timothy McVeigh allegedly rented the Ryder truckthat carried the bomb. Bunting refused interviews today...
...Randy Weaver who answers the doorbell of the two- story house with the flaking brown paint and squeaky front door on a corner lot in Grand Junction, Iowa (pop. 880), is dwarfed by his own legend. He is about 5 ft. 7 in. with neatly styled salt-and-pepper hair. He wears a pressed pair of jeans, black T shirt and clean white socks. "I can't wait till all this blows over, and I can go back to the mountains again," he says as he ushers a Time reporter into his living room, furnished with two couches...