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...been killed. Deputy Marshal James Hopson, 59, was rushed to a hospital in critical condition. So, too, was Yorivon Kahl, 23, son of Gordon Kahl, 63, a convicted tax evader whom the marshals had tried to arrest by setting up a roadblock on the outskirts of Medina...
...elder Kahl, who had contended that the U.S. Government is "the American synagogue of Satan," jumped into an unmarked Medina police car at the shooting site and fled. Much of the government he hated was soon hunting him, employing some 100 lawmen, dozens of cars, police dogs, even an incongruously formidable armored personnel carrier. By week's end five suspects, including Kahl's wounded son, were under arrest. But Kahl was still eluding the massive man hunt...
Kahl, who grew up on a farm near Heaton, 40 miles from Medina, had taken wintertime jobs in Texas before moving there with his wife and six children in 1967. In Crane, Texas, he was known mainly as a quiet and hard-working supervisor in a company that cleans oil pipelines with steam. Sheriff Raymond Weatherby recalls that Kahl was "polite and nice until you got him talking about taxes. Then he was off to the races." Kahl organized about ten people into a Posse chapter in Crane. He drove a Dodge pickup emblazoned with two large white stars...
...they defend their own land. So far they have done so, holding the Iranians to small victories at a huge cost in lives. But the war of attrition may only be beginning, and the will to win may ebb and flow before the fighting is over. -By Sara C. Medina. Reported by Barry Kalb/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York
...Sara Medina...