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...Charles Duke, 52, a fervent leader of a movement to reaffirm the 10th Amendment and strengthen states' rights. Local rights are, of course, a militia tenet. And Duke plays up those sympathies. At a rally last week, Duke lent weight to the scuttlebutt that the government was behind the Oklahoma bombing. Though criticized, he still warned darkly of "serious allegations of government involvement" that his office is probing. "More people die from skiing every year than are hurt by militias," says Duke. What critics are calling "ultraright," he adds, is "really just people that believe in the Constitution." --By Nina...
...burials in Oklahoma City began -- first for tiny Baylee Almon, the one-year-old whose photograph, taken as she was lifted out of the rubble, was used to symbolize the city's loss on front pages worldwide. By week's end the death toll from the terrorist bombing of the federal building had passed 120. Rescue workers redoubled their efforts as they approached "the pit," a huge mountain of rubble at the center of the explosion where the building's Social Security office and day-care center had collapsed together and where many more dead were expected to be found...
...Minneapolis, President Clinton criticized "purveyors of hate" on the "airwaves" and was in turn attacked by many conservative talk-radio hosts, as well as some of their Republican critics, for appearing to use the Oklahoma tragedy to score points off the right wing. The next day the President backpedaled, saying he had attacked extremism "from the left or the right." He also said he would ask Congress for $1.5 billion to crack down on terrorism, outlining a plan that would include hiring 1,000 additional law enforcers, require explosive materials to be chemically "tagged" to make them easier to track...
...called assault weapons in the senseless bomb attack," Dole said. On the surface, that's right. The innocents killed April 19 weren't shot. But guns and bombs are connected. The mere presence of weapons can spur violent behavior, and since Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with the Oklahoma horror, was obsessed with guns, the issue is particularly pressing...
...estimated 100,000 students carry a gun to school each day. It is expected that by the year 2003 the annual number of deaths from firearms in the U.S. will surpass the number of people killed in motor-vehicle accidents, thus becoming the leading cause of injury-related deaths. Oklahoma's bombing can provide what educators call a "teachable moment'' -- and just because a vital lesson appears to have escaped Bob Dole doesn't mean others can't learn. Outlawing all guns may be impossible, but continuing the ban on assault weapons should be beyond debate...