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...that a jailed Freemen leader has approved an FBI settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME's Pat Dawson reports from Montana, "and he is under a lot of pressure from his family to leave the compound." Other Freemen...
When he vacations, Brokaw often adjourns to his ranch in Montana, where he returns to his boyhood pastimes of hunting and fishing...
JORDAN, Montana: Backed by a Federal court ruling, the FBI has ordered members of the media away from the ranch outside Jordan where an anti-government group and federal agents are entrenched in a standoff that began March 25. The FBI has not yet specified just how far the media will be required to withdraw, but they will have to vacate the hilltop perch where cameras, with the aid of telephoto lenses, have documented the comings and goings of agents, Freemen and outside negotiators. Agents and U.S. Attorney Sherry Matteucci said the order was a reaction to violation of unwritten...
JORDAN, Montana: Colorado state Senator Charles Duke has packed his bags and headed home. After six days of negotiations with leaders of the Freemen group hunkered down on a ranch outside Jordan, Duke declared the group to be "paper-hanging frauds hiding behind the Constitution," and said it was time they "felt some pain." On several occasions over the last week, negotiators felt they were close to reaching a settlement, only to see the Freemen upped the ante. Such tactics infuriated Duke, who was seen several times engaged in heated discussion with Freemen representatives before breaking off talks Tuesday. "They...
JORDAN, Montana: James "Bo" Gritz, a leader of the right-wing "Patriot" movement, ended his negotiations this morning with a group of some 20 Freemen who have barricaded themselves on their Montana ranch. After hinting yesterday that a possibly peaceful solution was near, Gritz now says that the Freemen have retrenched, and that a solution no longer seems near. Leaders of the group, wanted on several state and federal fraud and harassment charges, reportedly had been receptive to a deal under which the state of Montana would drop its charges if the group surrendered within 24 hours. But apparently they...