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Mantle's father, a miner in Oklahoma, taught Mickey how to switch hit practically before Mickey could walk. Mantle's father, after an exhausting day in the mines, would come home and play catch with Mickey. Images of a young Mickey making his own bat, like Roy Hobbs in The Natural, fill one's mind when imagining this most American story of a father playing baseball with...
...rekindling of the '70s' Sagebrush Rebellion, although it does share the same goal of increasing local control over federal lands. Carver, who carries his Constitution in his shirt pocket even while baling hay, is a product of the same antifederalist ferment that produced such widely divergent events as the Oklahoma City bombing and Ross Perot's recent proposal to launch a new political party. Nye's particular brand of rebellion is driven too by an intense feeling that the combined forces of federal law, environmental activism and urban growth may have doomed a mythic frontier life-style. Says Karl Hess...
Coloring the hostility is a large dose of the paranoia that has seeped into American political discourse over the past year, especially since the Oklahoma City bombing. These days it seems no conversation in Nye County can conclude without some reference to Waco and Ruby Ridge. "What these have done," says Carver, "is show how the oppressive bureaucrats think they can run over the tops of the American people." He thinks both incidents contributed to the presence of guns among the spectators the day he bulldozed the road. He is convinced federal agents are monitoring his travels. During a speech...
That left those following the crime right back where they started. For the 90-agent, Oklahoma City-size FBI contingent assigned to the case, that meant, amid the sand, saguaros and 114-degree heat of the Arizona desert, examining every piece of debris as huge cranes lifted the wreckage, and interviewing every possible witness. The agents projected a certain assurance. "I don't know whether the motive is a disgruntled employee or an act of terrorism--but we will find out," said Robert Bryant, the FBI's top counterterrorism officer. High bureau officials estimated that the case could be wrapped...
Conn is bringing in a witness who already promises controversy. Roger McCarthy, an engineer from the Menlo Park, California, firm of Failure Analysis Associates, which provided law-enforcement officials with re-creations of the Oklahoma City bombing, will give jurors a CD-ROM presentation featuring grisly autopsy photographs and computer models of the murdered couple. According to Conn, McCarthy has determined the entry angles of the 12 bullets fired into Jose and Kitty and the sequence of the shots, illustrating the intent to kill and bolstering the prosecution's claim that the victims were shot in the knee because...