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...last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money was a U.S. firm with little income and few assets, but quietly backed by an aviation-services and real estate-investment company controlled by Hong Kong and Taiwanese businessmen. The money passed through a Republican think tank that granted big donors more influence over party policy in return for more money. For Young, the arrangement also opened diplomatic doors. In Washington, Young met face to face with the lions of the G.O.P. just as they were taking over Congress. In Beijing a year later, he escorted G.O.P. chairman Haley...
...joined the Army, serving as a tank gunner. He became close friends with Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, but otherwise kept to himself. Comrades remember that he talked paranoically about the Federal Government and the threat that it would take guns away from American citizens. In the Gulf War he made two clean kills, once knocking an enemy soldier's head off his shoulders like a cue ball. McVeigh bragged often about that shot. Then, on the second day of a 21-day tryout for the Green Berets, McVeigh quit, and soon left the Army altogether...
Dershowitz's conclusions were dubbed "lame" in a review by Elliott Abrams, a think-tank head and former Assistant Secretary of State whose own book on assimilation, Faith or Fear (Free Press; 256 pages; $25), is due in June. Abrams too detects a distortion in American Jewish self-image: he thinks the elite, eager to fit in, traded religious identity for the less off-putting "faith" of secular liberalism, and the price is outmarriage. "Jewishness without Judaism," he insists, "cannot be transmitted from generation to generation...
...Wanna take a ride?" shouts Moujila Nasferi, a tank driver who left a comfortable life in the U.S. seven years ago to join Rajavi's warriors. Her face and hands stained black from cleaning her Russian T-55 tank's gun barrel, Nasferi slips into the small driver's hatch beneath the turret of the tank, which jumps as she jams it into gear and guides it easily across the desert. In Washington, where she lived from 1977 to 1989, "I had my own house, a car and a job, but I kept listening to reports of how bad things...
...three different sirens--wail, yelp and hi-lo"--and cross-examining moteliers and roadside philosophers at places like the Wes-T-Go Truck Stop outside Abilene, Texas, not so far from where Lee Johnson shows off a half-million-dollar motor coach that does 1,500 miles to a tank...