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...groups have been angry because of President Jacques Chirac's recent decision to resume nuclear testing. Still the French are being particularly careful about speculating without evidence, says Rademaekers. For one thing, they don't want to repeat the mistake made by U.S. law enforcement officials immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing, when some speculated that Middle Eastern terrorists were responsible, giving rise to a backlash against Americans of Middle Eastern extraction...
...internal troubles have impaired its law-enforcement abilities by embroiling agents and managers in a web of in-house scandals and divisive controversies. The agency faces a class action by black agents who claim widespread discrimination and intimidation, including the posting at one office of a "State of Oklahoma Nigger Hunting License." Last week charges resurfaced that ATF agents attended a racist gathering in Tennessee, the annual "Good O' Boys Roundup." Agents complain too of a management culture that doles harsh discipline to agents but goes to great lengths to protect its managers. In one case, a former head...
...monocytic Ehrlichiosis, a flulike illness first identified in the western hemisphere nine years ago. HGE is spread by the deer tick in Northern states, while monocytic Ehrlichiosis is a mostly Southern syndrome that travels in the Lone Star tick. The disease is found in 30 states, including Texas and Oklahoma. More than 400 cases of monocytic Ehrlichiosis, nine of them fatal, have been documented since the mid-'80s. Unfortunately the two species of Ehrlichia are sufficiently distinct from each other so that the existing test for the monocytic disease will not always betray the presence of the granulocytic...
Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists...
Taylor said protecting people from bombs likethe one used in the Oklahoma City tragedy isdifficult...