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...attack on the neo-Nazi gang, announcing the indictment of 23 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment charges that members of the Order were responsible for crimes including counterfeiting, armored-car robberies and two murders, one of them the assassination of radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg in Denver. It was the first time the RICO statute, which has been used frequently against organized crime, has been applied to a far-right hate network...
...Murabitun radio station and party headquarters also took a pounding: floors collapsed, pillars buckled, and steel reinforcing rods bent into bizarre shapes. Later, Amal militiamen could be seen standing guard outside the gutted building. Emblazoned on a concrete slab at the entrance was a Murabitun slogan: WHAT IS TAKEN BY FORCE IS REGAINED ONLY BY FORCE...
...propelled grenades and mortars. Several shells crashed into an Islamic orphanage housing hundreds of children. Some were handicapped, and many had lost both parents in previous waves of communal violence. "The children were terrified," an official said later. "They ran about crying and screaming." At one point the Sunni radio station, Voice of Arab Lebanon, broadcast an appeal to the combatants to stop fighting around the orphanage. Like other appeals for ceasefires that night, it went unheeded...
...White House did take the unusual step of prerecording the weekly radio speech that Reagan normally delivers live at noon Saturday, Washington time, but not because anyone had anticipated any problems with the relatively routine procedure. No one at the White House, in fact, had any doubt that Reagan and the First Lady could get away for a relaxing Saturday and Sunday at Camp David. As the President and Nancy were walking from the helicopter into the hospital Friday afternoon, a reporter called out, "How do you feel?" Reagan spread his arms and cried, "Fine...
...following morning, Reagan summoned all 28 Senate and House budget negotiators for the meeting at the White House where tempers flared. According to Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray complained to Reagan about a radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need...