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...course, a tragic ending, hopefully brought about by a showy use of government force. Waco has all of these, and a built-in audience: the antigovernment militia types who consider their inalienable rights to be under constant siege from the same government that's supposedly sworn to protect them. Whether you call this contingent patriots or terrorists, conflagrations like Waco are their spiritual grist. And the feds are just making it worse...
...political system," the political aftershocks of last week?s devastating act of God have left his government increasingly embattled. New taxes proposed by the government to raise some of the $20 billion required to repair the quake damage were greeted with skepticism Friday by Turkish newspapers who questioned whether the revenue would actually be spent in the disaster zone. Anger at the sluggish initial relief efforts from the government and the military was compounded by the realization that the massive death toll was largely a result of officials? failure to enforce building regulations. Even more bizarre ? and possibly self-destructive...
...campaign to forcibly integrate East Timor. International pressure has forced Indonesia to agree to allow the referendum and to abide by its results, but members of the military began organizing the anti-independence militia to intimidate voters soon after the poll was announced. "It?s impossible to tell whether the Indonesian government is being disingenuous with the West about its intentions or whether they?re simply unable to control the military in East Timor," says Calabresi. "But violence is expected to intensify even after Monday?s vote." An independent East Timor may be born on Monday, but Indonesian officers appear...
...scene. "Everyone involved knows they were there," he said, and well, Army ops are verboten on domestic soil. Hardly the sort of thing that should put antigovernment types? fears to rest. But then again, maybe all this ?- which Coulson says he started because "we were in error" about whether tear gas was used ?- is the FBI?s way of letting the truth out in small, non-incendiary batches...
...students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional separation of church and state, leaving 4,003 pupils uncertain, as schools opened Wednesday, about whether they?ll be able to stay in the private schools many of them have attended for as long as four years...