Word: reno
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...however, he is dedicated enough to his comrades and their cause to keep his mouth shut. Imprisoned at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, McVeigh, when questioned, responds only with his name, his rank and his date of birth-obeying, as it happens, the instructions for pows in a manual published by the Michigan Militia. Even when confronted last week with photographs of the children carried from the crumpled Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building -- some bloody and numb with shock, others already dead -- McVeigh appeared unshaken. The accused bomber seems to have decided that he is a prisoner...
...Commerce Clause, the decision may prompt a new round of challenges to more recent bills like the assault-weapons ban and the Republican push to put federal limits on state-court damage awards. In his weekly radio address last Saturday, Clinton said he had ordered Attorney General Janet Reno to report within a week on how to make the school gun ban constitutional. In the meantime, Alfonso Lopez is heading to a place where firearms are not a problem. He is joining the Marines. -Reported by Nina Burleigh and J.F.O. McAllister/Washington and Andrea Sachs/New York
...freshmen Republicans in Congress for staunch support. Representative Helen Chenoweth of Idaho has publicly noted that "black helicopters" operated by the Federal Government -- a common demonic image in militia lore -- have harassed Idaho citizens. Representative Steve Stockman of Texas sent a concerned letter to Attorney General Janet Reno in March when he heard rumors that the Federal Government was about to raid local militias. "A paramilitary-style attack against Americans who pose no risk to others ... would run the risk of an irreparable breach between the Federal Government and the public," wrote Stockman...
Evidence against bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh mounted as investigators learned he had boasted just days before the bombing that "something big is going to happen." At a hearing, held in the El Reno Federal Corrections Center for security reasons, a federal magistrate ordered him to be held without bail. Two other men, Terry and Joseph Nichols, who were taken into custody as material witnesses, continued to be held, but neither has been charged directly in the bombing. And there was still no break in the search for a second bombing suspect, known only as John...
...decision that could herald a new direction for the court, the Justices ruled that the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act could not come under the Constitution's interstate commerce clause and was thus an infringement of state power. An angry Clinton gave Attorney General Janet Reno a week to find a legal way around the ruling...