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...have any misgivings," Ted Fennig of Greendale, Wisconsin, said last week. Fennig's son, Technical Sergeant Patrick P. Fennig, 34, an F-15 crew chief, was killed in the explosion at the Khobar Towers compound. "None of us," Fennig said, "have a problem with the mission." The families of other service members who died echoed that sentiment, and U.S. officials insisted that the act of terror would not deter the U.S. from fulfilling its mission in Saudi Arabia and around the Persian Gulf. In the aftermath of last week's deaths, however, it is appropriate to ask what exactly that...
...Reported by Laura Claverie/New Orleans, Patrick Cole/Los Angeles and Tom Witkowski/Boston
...Reported by Patrick Dawson/Jordan
There is clearly more here than a color-coded difference of opinion. Either the ministers are grossly exaggerating their mistreatment or top Clinton Administration officials are not getting adequate information about their agents' conduct in the field. Deval Patrick, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insists that every lead is being followed. And he notes that in several cases whites with ties to racist groups have been convicted and sent to prison. Indeed, last week a Baptist congregation in South Carolina opened a new front against the terrorists by filing a civil damage suit accusing the Christian Knights...
That was a step in the right direction, but it will take more to allay the misgivings of Southern blacks, almost all of whom believe the fires have been set by organized hate groups. They are unmoved by Patrick's insistence that to date there is no evidence of a widespread conspiracy. Even if a vigorous, thorough investigation is taking place, it does not matter if that investigation's results are not believed by those who have lost the most in the church fires, and they won't, unless blacks also become convinced that every possibility is being seriously considered...