Word: montanas
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Theodore J. Kaczynski '62, a Harvard graduate turned Montana recluse, is now being prosecuted in California for the Unabomer's crimes...
...your report on Montana's Freemen [NATION, June 17], you mentioned that one of the Freemen was influenced by a right-wing group called We the People. This group is not to be confused with the progressive national political organization of the same name founded by former California Governor Jerry Brown. Members of this group, in conjunction with the Green Party, are working in 45 states to place Ralph Nader's name on the ballot for President of the U.S. GEORGE N. LYNE East Coast Coordinator We the People Ellenton, Florida...
Today, the American theology of the '50s--the middle class's belief in the government's bland benevolence--is a dying creed. Rising expectations have given way to escalating suspicions about those in power. It isn't only the Montana Freemen who believe that we have met the enemy and he is U.S. "We know we've been lied to," says Bryce Zabel, Dark Skies' co-creator, "about Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-contra." Moreover, as ID4's Emmerich notes, "every generation creates its own mythology. Now the mythology centers on the government's hiding the dead alien bodies it discovered...
...Eastern Montana and the Western Dakotas sympathize with those enduring the drought in Texas [NATION, June 10]. We suffered through 12 years of drought, from 1980 to 1991. Old-timers said it was worse than the '30s. Our well-built houses could not keep out the dust; winters brought us dirt drifts instead of snowdrifts. In 1988 we never pulled a combine into the field. Our county lost 20% of its population and 75% of the cattle herds. Isn't it interesting that it takes the Freemen to get publicity for this part of the country? CAROL R. BRENDEN Scobey...
...JORDAN, Montana: Authorities negotiating with the Montana Freemen said a resolution to the standoff could come in the next few days, now that a jailed Freemen leader has approved an FBI settlement. On Tuesday, the FBI flew Freemen spokesman Edwin Clark to Billings, Montana, to discuss terms of the surrender proposal with Daniel Petersen Jr. and LeRoy Schweitzer, whose arrest in March triggered the confrontation. Clark was returned to the ranch Tuesday evening and the Freemen gathered in a barn later, apparently to confer on the proposal. "Ed Clark puts a lot of stock in Schweitzer's opinion," TIME...