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HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...
Adler said he took depositions in his Natick, Mass. office from Ostrowski and from Sue Weaver Schopf, another Extension School administrator named in the lawsuit...
Despite a vow that he would never surrender, white supremacist Randy Weaver quit his mountain cabin in northern Idaho, ending an 11-day siege that resulted in the deaths of his wife Vicki, his son Samuel and a deputy U.S. marshal, William Degan. Weaver's defiance began in January 1991, when he failed to appear in court on charges of selling two shotguns to an undercover agent. Nineteen months later, those charges have at least one additional count: assaulting a federal officer. Gerry Spence, who represented former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, will defend Weaver...
...Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's 13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin. Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris...
...Weaver, 44, has ties to the racist Aryan Nations sect based in Hayden Lake, 60 miles to the south. Some neighbors, saying Weaver simply wants the government to leave him alone, brought food and mail to the cabin after Weaver retreated there last year. After the shoot-out, as officers cordoned off the mountain, local sympathizers shouted obscenities at police manning the roadblock and vowed, "We'll get you!" At week's end Weaver, his remaining three children and Harris continued to hunker down as lawmen used loudspeakers to broadcast appeals from family members and friends urging the outlaw...