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...Victims will be just as dead, killed off in the name of greed," he said, comparing the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing to those laid off in the most recent General Motors plant closing...
Brian Bosworth, 31; Los Angeles; former pro-football player One of the most controversial athletes in recent times, Bosworth was an All-American linebacker at the University of Oklahoma when he and 20 other college players tested positive for anabolic steroids in 1986. Bosworth claimed he took the steroids to rehabilitate his sore shoulders. The incident did not prevent the Seattle Seahawks from signing him to a 10-year, $11 million deal in 1987, then the richest rookie contract in history. Football's rebel enhanced his hip image by sporting a gold earring and blond Mohawk haircut. The athletic career...
...elections, both the left and the right discovered just how effectively these loopholes can be used. The conservatives did it first in 1994, when such Republican-leaning lobbies as the Christian Coalition, the National Rifle Association and the tobacco industry joined forces to defeat the late Mike Synar of Oklahoma, a Clinton friend, by spending more than $1 million on billboards, radio spots, phone appeals and "voter guides" handed out in church pews and in Wal-Mart parking lots. Similar tactics around the country were a key to producing the first Republican-controlled House in 40 years...
...targeted an almost-completed $200 million dollar FBI facility in Clarksburg that is designed to speed up fingerprint checks and provide automated criminal record-keeping for background checks.The plot was led by Floyd Raymond Looker, the commander of the Mountaineer Militia who has accused federal agents of orchestrating the Oklahoma City bombing as an excuse to crack down on the militia movement. Looker, a real estate developer who made an unsuccessful run at the state legislature in 1994, said his group has members in 37 of West Virginia's 55 counties. He would not say how many members...
...year contract with the Florida Citrus Commission. Her 20-year marriage to manager Bob Green also ended. Bryant had once denounced divorce as a sin; today, it seems, she's been reborn. In 1990 she married former NASA test crewman Charlie Dry, a childhood sweetheart from Tishomingo, Oklahoma. Last year the two purchased the Anita Bryant Theater in Branson, Missouri, where she performs country oldies and gospels each week to growing crowds. She shies away from discussing homosexual issues these days, and was unavailable for comment last week because of a minor car accident. But she told the Washington Post...