Word: militia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opened his coat to display a holstered pistol. All three were jailed. Finally, two men waiting in a nearby car (guns and cash were later found in its trunk) were forced out of their vehicle and jailed. One turned out to be John Trochmann, co-founder of the Militia of Montana, an armed, conspiracy-loving group opposed to "one-world government" and the federal bureaucracy...
...paranoia is so deep," says Jay Printz, sheriff of Ravalli County, Montana, another hotbed of militia activity. "I just hope it doesn't deteriorate into armed confrontations." Others, argue that the new antifederalists are a mostly responsible lot. "These aren't survivalist wackos," says John Howard, president of the Individual Rights Foundation. "A lot of them are prominent people in their communities who do believe the Federal Government has gone too far." Even as the Westerners fight for local control, they are struggling just as hard to retain the huge federal grazing, farming, irrigation and mining subsidies that the Clinton...
...which Serbian aggression has wrought upon the Bosnian nation. It is a piece of unabashed propaganda for the Bosnian side, leaving out entirely the Croats and neglecting to examine the motivations of individual Serbs, beyond the infamous leaders like Serbian President Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Serb militia in Bosnia...
...epicenter of heavy fighting of the last three days. Now, burned and mangled Russian soldiers are as easy to spot as the dead among Grozny's inhabitants. "We clear away the corpses of our fallen comrades, but we can't clear away all the Russian corpses," said Chechen militia man Ilyas Salatayev. "But it's not our fault. We offered the Russians the chance to stop fighting, to let them take away their dead. They turned our offer down...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...