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BORN: July 8, 1938, Louisville, Ky. EDUCATION: Martin U, 1994-95 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Clothing-store owner; congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: Indiana House, 1973-77; Indiana Senate, 1977-91; Center Township Trustee, 1991- ADDRESS: 54 Monument Circle, Suite 600, Indianapolis...
...Clinton Township, New Jersey Banned at public playground; up to $500 fines...
...called Freemen compound has been quietly put up for sale by the federal Farm Service Agency. Ralph Clark's 960-acre home, which he called Justus Township, was the site of the 81-day standoff that ended June 13. Clark, whose father acquired the property in 1926, quit making payments on his federal farm loans in 1982. Debt and interest on the place swelled to $2.5 million. Asking price for the Freemen headquarters: $150,000. But bargain-hunting land barons and roadside-attraction speculators can forget it: only "beginning farmers/ranchers" are eligible to apply for the screening process, the buyer...
...royal treatment of a different order when Michael Jackson showed up at his 78th birthday party. Oddly, Jackson didn't join in during the singing of Happy Birthday. No loss for Mandela, who likes to dance (he does a mean toyi-toyi) but whose taste leans more toward '50s township music than...
Family has played a darker part in the Freemen drama as well, in the form of the twisted dynamic of the Clark clan, in which land, pride, stubbornness, greed and altruism all figure. Four Clarks are in the "Justus Township" compound: Emmett, 67, his brother Ralph, 65, Ralph's son Edwin, 45, and Edwin's son Casey, 22. But they no longer have legal title to the 960-acre farm occupied by the Freemen--or to some 4,000 adjacent acres once owned by Ralph, Emmett and Edwin. Mortgages on that land were foreclosed after the Clarks stopped making payments...