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...away sometimes overnight. They come into being and disperse. They don't want to be big because they worry about the focus that will be placed on them." Indeed, the Arizona Republic reports the Vipers may have broken away from the larger Alliance in Militias and then split into two factions--with the second group still on the loose...
...only. A fence surrounds the property, which is patrolled by police armed with machine guns and wearing bulletproof vests. When Dyachenko moved her own office to the hotel to be near the Americans, the rest of the campaign took three floors of offices there as well. Yeltsin's badly split Russian advisers quickly set up separate fiefdoms on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors. Dyachenko worked almost exclusively on the 11th in Room 1119, directly across the hall from the Americans in 1120. She and they shared two secretaries, a translator, and fax, copying and computer-printing machines...
LONDON: The Royal saga that engrossed the world and graced the covers of newsmagazines and tabloids has officially come to an end. After 3 1/2 years of separation, Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced Friday that they have agreed to a divorce. The split will be made final on August 28, with the Princess relinquishing her title of Her Royal Highness but keeping the title of Diana, Princess of Wales. As a result, she could be expected to curtsy to the Queen, her husband and her sons. Although no formal announcement of the settlement was made, Diana is expected...
Affirmative action was and remains one of U.S. justice's toughest calls: "Split almost exactly down the middle, the Supreme Court last week offered a Solomonic compromise...rigid quotas...were forbidden, but...race might legitimately be an element in judging [university applicants]...Writing six different opinions totaling 154 pages, the Justices were as torn [as] the rest of the nation. The case had attracted 61 amicus curiae briefs, [the most ever submitted]...Three times the opinions were sent to the printer only to be pulled back for additions, deletions and revisions. The version finally made public was the fourth. [Justice...
...exactly. Flying a U.S. airline is one of the safest ways to travel in the world, and, in general, getting safer. But no thanks to the FAA's doggedness on the issue. Countless studies, journalistic exposes and congressional hearings have long made it clear that the FAA, with its split function of promoting and regulating the airline industry, has not always moved so decisively as it might have on safety matters...