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...story of how India revived the nuclear nightmare begins in December 1995. The government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao is secretly readying an underground nuclear test when U.S. spy satellites orbiting over the Thar Desert in Rajasthan near the Pakistani border snap pictures of thick electric cables being installed in a hole at the Pokhran test site. The Clinton Administration leaks word of the preparations to the press, then dispatches a diplomatic team to confront the Indian government with the satellite photos. Rao is forced to abort the test...
...goes to a cashless society, America's underground economy will collapse. Are we sure the IRS isn't behind this? The underground I'm talking about is not drug dealers. I mean people who work for cash in order to get by. They hold jobs as lawn keepers, baby sitters, handymen, caregivers and so forth, and depend on payment in cash. I smell a political revolution in the making. RENEE PEARCE Mercer...
Yager started Children of the Underground in the late '80s when she parted ways with another underground, based in Mississippi and run by Lydia Rayner. Like Rabun, Rayner loves Faye's passion and deplores her methods. Hiding children is discreet business, but Faye is a moth after the hot lights of news and talk shows. Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, you name a show and she was there in Fabulous Faye getups, ranting not just about pervert dads but at times including homosexuals, Masons, judges and satanic cults on her list of unholy conspirators. She once said 70% of her cases...
...French documentary on Faye's underground, two lines stand out. Asked how she helps women, she says, "Basically, I give them a course on how to break the law and get away with...
...Fritz Lang released Metropolis, the idea for which came to him when he first saw, from shipboard, the glaring lights and tall buildings of Manhattan. (The film became a favorite of Hitler's.) Set in the year 2000, Metropolis shows plutocrats living in idle pleasure while workers slave away underground until a spectacular rebellion sets them free. This was reminiscent of H.G. Wells' 1895 dystopian fantasy, The Time Machine, in which a subhuman race called the Morlocks lives underground and emerges to devour the humans who live above...