Word: michigan
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...Nanooks have been far from impressive thus far this year, coming in at 5-10-1. But the Nanooks did knock off nationally-ranked Michigan St. earlier in the season in East Lansing...
Eric Adelson of WHRB contributed to the reporting of this article. NCAA POLL 1. Maine (25) 14-0-5 258 2. Colorado Coll. (2) 14-4-0 235 3. Michigan 11-4-0 198 4. B.U 9-3-3 193 5. Minnesota 10-5-1 151 6. Bowling Green 10-5-0 118 7. Michigan St. 11-4-1 114 8. Denver 11-5-0 46 9. Clarkson 6-3-2 46 10. New Hampshire 10-3-2 43 Compiled by the Troy (N.Y.) Record. First-place votes are in parentheses, followed by team record against NCAA. Division I schools...
...also fear that foreign powers, working through organizations like the United Nations and treaties like the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, are eroding the power of America as a sovereign nation. On a home video promoting patriot ideas, a man who gives his name only as Mark from Michigan says he fears that America will be subsumed into "one big, fuzzy, warm planet where nobody has any borders." Samuel Sherwood, head of the United States Militia Association in Blackfoot, Idaho, tells followers, absurdly, that the Clinton Administration is planning to import 100,000 Chinese policemen to take guns away...
...attention of the disaffected and recruiting them into militias. Most experts agree that the groups are multiplying and their membership is expanding, though estimates vary. Chip Berlet, who studies militias for Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts think tank, says militia units exist in 30 states, including large organizations in Michigan, Montana and Ohio, and he suspects there may be units in 10 other states. Although there may be hundreds of thousands of people who identify with the patriot movement, Berlet estimates that only about 10,000 people have actually joined the armed militias...
...their wilderness training excursions, these would-be warriors give themselves a vigorous workout. In Michigan the members of a local militia build their endurance by running army-style outdoor obstacle courses or tramping long distances across rugged terrain while holding heavy semiautomatic rifles. John Schlosser, coordinator of Colorado's Free Militia (claimed membership: 3,000), admits that his group's doomsday preparations sometimes amount to no more than "playing games in the woods." Militia members, sometimes with their families in tow, play hide-and-seek and capture the flag, all to build conditioning in case of an armed conflict...