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...buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens in only four days. In Stateway Gardens, Juanita Bishop counts five other tenants she knew who were killed by guns and says, "I'm for the whole sweep. Then we could let our kids outside...
...sent every high school principal and attorney general in the nation literature urging that such prayers be allowed as an expression of "free speech" and "equal access to the marketplace of ideas." (His organization does not advocate student prayers on school-wide intercoms, the practice that got Mississippi principal Bishop Knox suspended...
...Americans. "After weeks of reconnaissance, my people came up with a detailed plan to land a helicopter near Khomeini's residence, neutralize his guards and whisk him away. The CIA loved the idea, but Jimmy Carter nixed it. He said, 'We just can't do this to an old bishop...
...even the most world-weary Muscovites find diversion in the antics of their politicians. They are particularly bemused by the squabble about where the new parliament is supposed to meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose...
...only person on the scene providing a definitive answer to this question is Amo Bishop Roden, a Branch Davidian woman who for months has conducted a lonely sit-in in an effort to reclaim the land once owned by ex-cult leader George Roden, her former husband, who is in a state mental hospital. Amo emerges from a tiny metal shack to point visitors to an altar she has fashioned from concrete slabs and sell them $15 videotapes purporting to show how the FBI started the fire with a tank-mounted flamethrower. She hints of missing corpses and CIA involvement...