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Even with the evidence of local support, the FBI moved gingerly all week. The situation has escalated at a time dangerously close to the April 19 anniversary of the Waco debacle and last year's bombing in Oklahoma City, a red-letter date on the calendar of the extremist right. This time the FBI has been taking no chances. Trained negotiators have stayed in touch with the fugitives via a phone line that was kept operational when the regular lines to the house were cut off. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, an elite assault force involved in the Ruby...
Mosley lost in the 158 pound weight class to Hardell Moore of Oklahoma State...
...recent weeks the Nuggets alerted the NBA of Abdul-Rauf's behavior, and the NBA asked the Nuggets to solve the problem quietly. But with the relocation of the Oklahoma City bombing trial to Denver, patriotism has become a major focus of the local press and talk radio programs. Once they got word of Abdul-Rauf's nightly disappearing act just prior to the playing of the anthem, the issue became increasingly public...
...keep them out. In Nebraska, a state ban on corporate farms has sharply slowed their growth. Elsewhere, opponents have used zoning and environmental laws to block plans for new farms. Residents are also seeking to shut plants now in operation. "The smells are horrendous," complains Carla Smalts, an Oklahoma farm wife who has sued to prevent a pig palace from opening near her home. She's also helping to coordinate anti-hog farm movements in five states. In Colorado, where water rights are often a heated issue, Travis, Dobler and an organization called Alliance Conserving Tomorrow used state groundwater laws...
Perot says he hopes that the party's nominee will be a fresh face. High on his wish list are David Boren of Oklahoma and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, both of whom served as Governor and Senator; former Missouri Senator John Danforth; and retiring Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia. But anyone the party chooses will face spending limits, unless it is Perot, who by law can spend all he pleases on his own candidacy. That may be enough to decide who gets the Reform Party nod when it holds its convention in late summer. Don't be surprised...