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...Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne, workers will begin posting signs raising the state speed limit to 70 mph over 77,000 miles of Texas highways. A number of like-minded Western states are giving motorists freer rein: Kansas, Nevada and Wyoming will raise the limit to 75 mph, while Oklahoma and South Dakota will set theirs at 70. The best state for Unser wannabes? Montana, where the only limit will be how fast eight cylinders can move...
DIED. RALPH BLANE, 81, Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose 500 titles include Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Meet Me in St. Louis; in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma...
...West Bank and Gaza Strip, tend to believe that any act, including murder, is justified if it thwarts the peace process. Says University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, an expert on Jewish fundamentalism: "It's the equivalent of the right-wing milieu that led to the Oklahoma City bombing." That event shook Americans out of the complacent notion that it couldn't happen here; now Israelis too have an even deeper understanding of their vulnerability...
...frustration," says Barnes. "The interesting thing is that Amir fits the profile of a lot of terrorists. He's a loner and a former soldier who seemed especially sensitive to the rhetoric of the radical right. Just like Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with blowing up the Oklahoma federal building. I think, in the end, the police will find out that the so-called conspiracy is more of a gripe session than a terrorist cell...
...money is coming from the wrong places," said Boren, who is now president of the University of Oklahoma...