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...airlines -- has drawn together a string of 15 incidents since 1978 that have killed one other person and injured 23. But while authorities can say with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender in Northern California, where the bomber is thought to reside, and the device, like earlier ones, was an intricately built pipe bomb inside a handmade wooden box -- they have not as yet determined what links his various targets. And although a task force of 25 agents from the FBI, the Bureau...
...called Chechnya is about the size of Connecticut, a mere pinprick even on a large world map. Its 1.3 million people make up less than 1% of the population of the Russian Federation from which it is trying to secede. But the war in this mountain enclave in the northern Caucasus involves stakes that are hardly Ruritanian. Obviously, there are the lives of many thousands of Chechens and Russian soldiers that could be snuffed out in the promised guerrilla struggle; at week's end, at least 16 and possibly 70 Russians -- counts differed wildly -- and hundreds of Chechens had already...
Stocked with Irish and German Catholics when it first opened in 1912, the middle-class parish on the city's northern edge is increasingly filled with Asians, African Americans and Hispanics. That influx has not been enough to offset the impact of smaller families and the exodus of many parishioners fleeing rising crime. Since Mass attendance peaked in 1975 at about 2,700, it has steadily declined 5% a year. Kenneally decided to start the gym Mass just months after he arrived at the parish in 1984 as a way to lure back Catholics who considered the traditional Mass...
...more ceremonial role in politics now becomes pivotal: he'll decide whether to grant Berlusconi's elections request -- or call on politicians to form a new parliamentary majority without him. The balance tipped against Berlusconi's seven-month-old government last week, when former key ally Umberto Bossi's Northern League party -- which wanted the P.M. to sever ties to his media empire -- joined opposition parties to schedule a spate of no-confidence motions for Friday. The former partners' final exchange Wednesday: Berlusconi called Bossi "a traitor...
When it comes to organization, however, the troops go high-tech. The militia movement, says Berlet, "is probably the first national movement organized and directed on the information highway." Patriot talk shows, such as The Informed Citizen, a half-hour program broadcast on public-access TV in Northern California, spread the word that American values are under attack from within and without. Militias also communicate via the Patriot Network, a system of linked computer bulletin boards, and through postings in news groups on the Internet. One recent posting by a group calling itself the Pennsylvania Militia, more specifically...