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...what seems lazy may be calculated strategy. "I take swimming for what it is--a sport," says Hall in an interview at the Phoenix Swim Club, his home base. "For some, training becomes a ritual as important as the competition itself. You feel trapped. The line at the bottom of the pool haunts your dreams." Gary Hall Sr., who set 11 world records in his time and held his 21-month-old namesake aloft after making his third Olympic team in '76, isn't worried about his son. "At warm-up meets, he goes through the motions, and that freaks...
Militia watchers were stunned that a group with so much weaponry and such big plans could have maintained so low a profile. Says Jack McLamb, a former police officer who publishes Aid & Abet, a Phoenix-based newsletter sympathetic to the militias: "We weren't aware of the Vipers, and that's what's surprising to us. We thought we were on top of things." What the Vipers may be is part of the shifting fringe of the disparate militia movement. These groups, says Richard Romley, chief prosecutor for Phoenix and Maricopa County, "pop up and go away sometimes overnight. They...
Strange things were happening in the woods. Last November agent Jose Wall of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Phoenix got disturbing information from people who had been through nearby Tonto National Forest. A deer hunter said he had been stopped by a group of men dressed in camouflage and armed with guns. They warned him to turn back, saying they were "security" and hinting they were with the government. The hunter didn't believe them. But something about their eyes, not to mention their weapons, made him think arguing would be imprudent. He ran into other people...
Last week, after an 8 1/2-month undercover probe, federal prosecutors announced who they thought that someone was: a little-known Phoenix-based paramilitary group by the name of the Viper Militia. Last Monday ATF agents arrested 10 men and two women alleged to be members of the group. In a series of simultaneous raids, agents found an arsenal that included two machine guns, six rifles and 56 boxes stuffed with 11,463 rounds of ammunition, as well as hundreds of pounds of chemicals similar to those used in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Agents also discovered...
After scoring an Oscar nomination for his performance in Chaplin four years ago, ROBERT DOWNEY JR. seemed on the verge of becoming the next Robert De Niro. Now Hollywood is worried that he may instead become the next River Phoenix. Stopped by police as he sped through Malibu in his truck last weekend, Downey was found to be carrying a small pharmacy of illegal drugs--crack, heroin--and, police said, a heavy-duty handgun. The hard-partying actor has been through rehab at least once since the late 1980s, but friends recently became alarmed at his downward spiral...