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...search for clues now runs from Kansas to Michigan to Arizona to Wisconsin to California. One possible new angle is that the bombing was financed by a series of unsolved bank robberies throughout the Midwest; in some of these incidents pipe bombs were left at the scene. Other investigators have turned to Paulsen's Military Supply in Antigo, Wisconsin. When McVeigh was arrested in Perry, Oklahoma, he left the store's business card in the patrol car. The father-son Paulsens are gun traders and may deal in the small explosive devices needed to set off bombs. Most important...
...million. In the home of one of them, police find a bombmaking manual called Jolly Roger's Cookbook, which, they say, had been downloaded from the Internet. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a live grenade is found in a newspaper-vending box; a day later, police discover an 8-in. pipe bomb on a bridge. These incidents, which happened last week and caused no injuries, may seem almost mundane compared to tragedy on the scale of the Oklahoma City blast and the notoriety of the Unabomber. Yet they represent a far more insidious danger: America's growing fascination and familiarity with...
...Washington a special-action group of top officials was meeting almost daily, sometimes with a pipe-puffing President Gerald Ford, to hear the latest news--uniformly bad. On April 17 the Senate Armed Services Committee, reflecting an overwhelming American desire to be done with Vietnam, rejected an Administration request for $722 million in emergency aid to the Saigon regime. "Those bastards!" exclaimed the usually calm Ford. Though nobody believed the aid would turn the tide, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and others had hoped it might enable South Vietnam to put up enough of a last-ditch fight to persuade...
...play the role of God, directing who will live and who will die. His own family history is juxtaposed with her story, according us unexpected insight. Kieslowski focusses on small images: the woman methodically snapping leaves off of a plant, her husband, in the hospital, fixating on a dripping pipe. The images wordlessly reflect the emotional states of the characters...
...characters and their compatriot Westphalians all wear white. They proceed through a whirlwind tour of countries and climes whose inhabitants run the gamut of color and texture. The lively contrast amply compensates for deficiencies in the score. VerHage has turned a costumer's nightmare into an audience member's pipe dream...