Word: winging
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...Intelligence Report, was yanked after the Oklahoma City bombing, but he continues to broadcast via satellite. He has given speeches in 44 states. Says Michael Reynolds, an intelligence analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch program: "He was an early bird in this particular cycle of right-wing extremism, and he has a style people want to hear.'' Koernke's defenders, like those of other militia grandees, note that he does not urge supporters to make a first strike on the government agencies they hate. Reynolds demurs: "Sure," he says, "many of the people attracted...
...three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative to all the mainstream Republican candidates. He wants to seal off the Right wing of the party and hope that all the candidates in the middle split the rest of the votes, giving him the majority and the nomination." Could it happen? "Anything's possible," says Barrett, "but Pat Buchanan will not be elected President...
...begun six days before, when his F-16 was targeted by an SA-6 surface-to-air missile fired from a Bosnian-Serb stronghold just south of Bihac. Together with Captain Bob Wright, 33, who was flying another F-16 on his wing, O'Grady was conducting one of the 69,000 sorties that have been flown during Operation Deny Flight to enforce a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone over northern Bosnia...
...would not be until early Thursday morning that Captain Thomas Hanford, an F-16 pilot from O'Grady's fighter wing making one of the repeated search sorties, received the first direct radio signal from the downed pilot. "Basher-52 reads you," said O'Grady, using the "call sign" that signifies a particular plane and its pilot. "I'm alive; help." Hanford subsequently asked him to identify the name of the squadron in which he had served in Korea -- a question designed to ensure that O'Grady's message was not, in fact, a Serb trick. When he replied correctly...
...Speaker Newt Gingrich in New Hampshire on Sunday? Better hold onto the memory. Today, the old partisan Gingrich came out swinging with accusations that the White House has been lying aboutGOP proposals to reform Medicare. He also told a Manchester radio station that a group of "very bitter left-wing Democrats"pushing ethics complaints against himhas "no ideas about welfare, they have no ideas about health care, they have no ideas about crime and they don't have any ideas aboutbalancing the budget. The only thing they can do is smear...