Word: nevadas
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...Emboldened by the Republican takeover of Congress, a growing number of ordinary citizens, as well as local and state government officials, are rejecting federal authority and fighting for what they believe are their property rights. Last week the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Nye County in Nevada from taking over federal lands and intimidating federal officials. Associate Attorney General John Schmidt said the Justice Department suit was intended to send a signal to other rebel movements in California, Idaho, New Mexico and Oregon and "put to rest the idea that any county has the right to enact...
Tensions have been running highest in Nevada. In 1993, Nye County adopted two resolutions asserting state ownership and control of public properties in its borders, including all roads. Last July 4, Nye County commissioner Richard Carver, flouting federal law, used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him. Last week, even in the face of the federal suit, the Nevada state senate passed a measure that sought to strengthen the state's claims to federal lands...
Government scientists who blew up two atomic bombs on the sands of the Nevada desert during the early Cold War were well aware that the fallout could have harmed civilians. Secret documents released by a presidential commission today quote scientists describing the health risk as a necessary "gamble." The1951 Defense Department project sought to study the effects of radioactive fallout -- despite the fact this meant using American citizens as the lab animals. The ground-level explosions were followed by above-ground blasts that continued until the early 1960s. Natural Resources Defense Council historian Stan Norris told TIME Daily that...
ROSEANNE is married...with child. Husband No. 3, her former bodyguard, Ben Thomas, got the bride pregnant through in-vitro fertilization. Their lively Nevada wedding last week was witnessed by 150 guests, who wore identifying wristbands instead of lapel stickers. To the relief of many, Roseanne did not sing Close...
...might consent to internationally supervised free elections, however worthy, in Chechnya? Elliott A. Cohen New York City Last year Boris Yeltsin threatened the West with a ``cold peace'' if NATO extended its membership eastward toward Russia. Well, Yeltsin's cold peace has already begun in Chechnya. Paul Etxeberri Reno, Nevada Again, as so often before, Russia has proved that it is in fact an ``evil empire.'' It is committing genocide in Chechnya. What's next? Estonia? Ukraine? When will the leaders of the free world realize the dangers of playing with the bear? Jonas Kjellberg Alingsas, Sweden While the situation...