Word: westons
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...going to win--there's not a question inmy mind, and we're ready to prove that," said CarlRosendorf, a resident of Weston who was a memberof Harshbarger's finance committee. "When thevoters compare the candidates' intellect, theirrecords, and their vision, the choice for theright candidate will be clear and compelling...
...loner charged with killing government officials and turn up, among other items, a bottle of gunpowder, books with titles like "Don't Bug Me" and a mysterious envelope marked "CIA packet." This was not the Unabomber's shack, but the Rimini, Mont., home of accused Capitol killer Russell Weston. Details of a recent FBI raid there were unsealed by a federal court late Monday, but the details were sketchy enough to allow for a certain amount of suspense...
...example, what is contained in the mysterious "diagram" the feds say they found in Weston's notebook? No elaboration was provided. And what was in the envelope titled "public info Freeman -- CNN"? Does it mean Weston was a Montana Freeman sympathizer, or that he corresponded regularly with CNN? Weston, still hospitalized with gunshot wounds, is in no position to tell us any time soon. Let the conspiracy theories begin...
...Weston is not the first person involved in a murderous incident who had earlier found his way into the Service's files. Samuel Byck first caught agents' attention after making a threat against President Nixon's life in 1972. In 1974 Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal...
...Weston fits another profile the Secret Service is used to encountering. Potential assassins, especially delusional ones, often change targets, making it difficult to predict who is in danger. Only after Arthur Bremmer shot and seriously wounded presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 did the Service learn--from Bremmer's diary--that the would-be assassin had stalked Nixon before turning to the less protected Wallace. So it was with Weston. He made threats against a President, but he took his gun to Capitol Hill...