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Janine G. McLaren, a former Boston area social worker, said she worries the gains and programs initiated by the Clinton Administration may be wiped away by a future administration...
...couldn't stay in social work, because I always lived hand-to-mouth. One day a program would be funded. The next, it would be gone, and I would be laid off. I couldn't keep doing that," McLaren said. "I just hope there is some way to insure the continuity of these new programs that Secretary Riley speaks about...
...week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department of public safety, Texas Rangers, border-patrol agents, Texas National Guard troops, Texas parks and wildlife agents, FBI agents, SWAT teams, armored personnel carriers and bloodhounds. "This is not the Alamo, and I'm not Davy Crockett," said Texas public-safety...
...McLaren's militia-style outfit believes the Lone Star State was illegally absorbed into the Union in 1845 and is a sovereign nation. It has its own courts, army and even license plates. On April 27, McLaren's followers took up arms (and a couple of hostages) in retaliation for the arrest of two members, one for weapons possession and the other on contempt charges. The hostages--neighbors who had quarreled with the litigious McLaren--were freed after Texas Rangers allowed a jailed "republican" to join the commandos, who then decamped to McLaren's "embassy." That exchangee, Robert Scheidt, apparently...
HILARY HYLTON, TIME's stringer in Austin, Texas, has been monitoring the activities of the group that calls itself the Republic of Texas for more than a year, interviewing its enigmatic leader, Rick McLaren, as his group grew more active, establishing, for example, a system of courts (one in an air-conditioning repair shop). When McLaren declared himself at war with the U.S. last week, we naturally turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren...