Word: rural
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...City for speeding, and then held him for reasons not yet disclosed. This afternoon, the other man in the sketches, Terry Lynn Nichols, voluntarily surrendered in Herington, Kan.; police officials say he is cooperating in the investigation. The FBI searched the home of Nichols' brother, James Douglas Nichols, in rural Decker, Mich. The Nichols brothers and McVeigh are thought to be members of theMilitia of Michigan, a paramilitary groupthat held meetings in Junction City, Kan., the town where the truck used in the bombing was rented. The group, founded last year, believes the federal government has outstripped its authority, especially...
...stations to warn that more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs and apparatuses and came close to uncovering evidence...
Hollywood makes two kinds of Ireland movies--the working class urban fantasy and the fey rural fantasy. "Circle of Friends," the latest Irish presence in American theaters, divides its time between Dublin and the countryside, but the movie could be set in Poughkeepsie as far as the plot is concerned; in this formulaic love-story, the setting doesn't intrude for a moment on the predicatable progress of the romance...
THEY WERE ABOUT TO PICK A JURY to hear a civil suit in rural Alabama the other day, and the home-side lawyer for the plaintiffs assured the jury pool of farmers and sewing-machine operators, stock clerks and bookkeepers that he didn't want "to pry into your life," but said he wanted to know, "Is there anyone here who doesn't believe in filing a lawsuit for any reason? Is there anybody here who simply doesn't believe a jury should award punitive damages in any amount?" It was pretty quiet, and no wonder...
...support of hundreds of county and state officials and private interest groups. The coalition is pushing to give ranchers and others greater access to federal lands, and for the Bureau of Land Management to return land holdings to the states. "The Federal Government has a stranglehold on the rural West," says Met Johnson, a G.O.P. state legislator in Utah and a co-founder of the coalition, "We are not the reactionary right wing. We know that we can manage these lands better than they can from inside the Beltway...