Word: standoff
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...treatment of gun owners to Nazi persecution of Jews during World War II. In a best-selling book published last year, Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association described ATF's disastrous raid at Waco, which began the 51-day siege that ended in conflagration, as "reminiscent of the standoff at the Warsaw ghetto." Opposition to ATF has become so intense in gun-toting quarters as to resemble a religion, says Gerald Nunziato, who heads the ATF tracing center. He distills its creed: "The gun is God; the N.R.A. is the congregation; and ATF is the devil...
...Senate. Accordingly, he has handed Burke the largest challenge of her own career by plunging her into the Senate fight over welfare reform, which has become as much a contest between moderates and conservatives within the G.O.P. as it is between Republicans and Democrats. It's the G.O.P. standoff that has kept a welfare-reform bill even from reaching the Senate floor, where it was supposed to have been debated this week. For the most dedicated conservatives, a bill that penalizes out-of-wedlock pregnancy is a non-negotiable demand. And for them Burke is the obstacle...
THOUGH THE ATF IS THE PET DEMON OF THE MILITANT right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver...
Director Louis Freeh removed his close friend and aide, Larry Potts, from the FBI's No. 2 post after concluding that Potts' effectiveness was undermined by the continuing controversy over his role in a bloody 1992 standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver in Idaho. At issue is whether Potts approved a much criticized shoot-on-sight order. The removal came just as the House is to start hearings on another operation Potts helped manage: the assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Wins six-year standoff as Burmese generals end her house arrest...