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Michael Hill, an Ohio militia chaplain, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning in a confrontation with a policeman in Frazeysburg, a small Ohio town some 50 miles northeast of Columbus. Militia members who were following Hill in a separate car claim that he was executed by the policeman,TIME correspondent Ed Barnes reports. But local police say that Hill pulled a .45-cal. semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the policeman, who then fired four shots, hitting Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia, and three militia witnesses...
Anyone who has followed American political discourse of late knows that the answer to both questions is yes -- as long as the bashee is a white heterosexual male. If, as in this case, he is also a Los Angeles policeman who is unwilling to confront his repressed homosexuality, so much the better. And if his moral weakness can be contrasted with a succession of noble people of color, including a madonna-like illegal Salvadoran immigrant, a lusty black preacher, a "reformed" gang leader and a prejudice-battling Vietnamese Legal Aid attorney, then you have a show that...
...Spanish, like Smith in English, and that this felicitous commonality is what gives the characters their freedom.) In Miami, meanwhile, Juan's wife Carmela (Anjelica Huston) believes that Juan is never going to arrive and, despite the objections of her brother Angel (Diego Walraff), finds herself attracted to a policeman named John Pirelli (Chazz Palminteri...
Many of the victims seemed most concerned not with their own injuries but with the fate of their friends. As co-workers struggled to rescue one another, a retired policeman pulled out his badge and began directing traffic away from the carnage. An employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was in an elevator at the time of the blast; he went into a six-story free fall. But having landed safely and climbed out of the rubble, he immediately went to work tracking down leads...
Intellectual freedom is stirring as well. Vietnam now has three private universities, and Hanoi's new Internet access provider, NETNAM, has as much business as it can handle. Late last year, when Hanoi officials tried to ignore the killing of an innocent person by a policeman, hundreds demonstrated in front of the Hanoi People's Court. Amid name calling and rock throwing, they demanded--and the court eventually decreed--the policeman's execution. "Opinion may not be expressed openly," says a Hanoi writer. "But it's out there, and if the government doesn't pay attention, they know they...