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...Mayoral Standoff...
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...
...militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched in to its eighth week. Dawson says that neither Gritz nor Duke were persuaded that the Freemen were negotiating in earnest. For the Freemen, there may be no incentive to give up peacefully, Dawson notes. Most members of the group are under indictment for fraud and for threatening...
...MOVE for setting the blaze that killed 11 people, including five children, and destroyed a block of homes, on May 13, 1995. The blaze began when Powell dropped a bomb containing C-4 explosive on the roof of MOVE's rowhouse on the fourth day of the group's standoff with police...
...include a demand to be tried before a tribunal of their Justus township peers. "They say Yahweh created an invisible barrier around their sanctuary that cannot be penetrated by foreign enemies," Gritz said. He added that he was leaving Jordan, and did not intend to pursue further negotiations. The standoff with FBI officers is now in its fifth week...