Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENTENCED. LEROY SCHWEITZER, 61, leader of the Freemen, the anti-government, anti-black and anti-Jewish group best known for its 81-day standoff with law-enforcement officials in 1996; to 22 1/2 years in prison; on charges including bank fraud and illegal possession of firearms; in Billings, Mont. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, who said he wanted to send a "loud and clear message to those who pass this hatred...around," also handed stiff sentences to six of Schweitzer's comrades...
...Apparently unfazed by the looming standoff in Paris, Serb troops pursued their offensive in Kosovo Tuesday, torching three villages in their pursuit of Kosovo Liberation Army rebels. The renewed fighting may have helped persuade the Kosovars to play ball with NATO. "Although the deal falls short of the KLA's goal of independence, it weakens Milosevic's hold on Kosovo," says Crumley. "They also realized that their signature was a precondition to any NATO bombing of Milosevic's forces." For the heavily outgunned KLA, signing an imperfect deal is still a cost-effective way of calling in an air strike...
...charged by the Navajo with one count of "threatening" and two counts of "battery" from a 1997 incident between Means and his in-laws. An Oglala Sioux actor, Means is the first national director of the American Indian Movement, an Indian rights group that led a two-month-long standoff at Wounded Knee...
Stratfor merits more than just a curt dismissal. The company used the same techniques to accurately forecast the economic crisis in Asia as well as the social and political troubles in Indonesia, the 1998 India-Pakistan nuclear standoff, and the 1998 rapprochement between Iran and the U.S. Stratfor has missed a few calls--most notably predicting that the euro would flop--but its gritty analysis has already won 15,000 subscribers to its free website...
...counterattacking the offending battery. The Pentagon has no doubt what Saddam is up to. He hopes one of the SAMs will find its target and that a "golden BB will get him an American pilot," says a U.S. general. It would be a prized bargaining chip in the standoff, but even if Saddam fails, "defiance is still more important than success," says Georgetown University expert Amatzia Baram. After enduring four days of U.S. bombing, "Saddam needs to show his people he can bloody the American nose...