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To: Win Smith who wrote (55)	11/17/2002 3:05:41 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 603

'The Terrorist Next Door': Aryan Nation nytimes.com [ Review of THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR The Militia Movement and the Radical Right. By Daniel Levitas. Excerpt: ] His central character is William Potter Gale, a World War II veteran who did more than anyone else to shape the militia movement. Gale, who died in 1988, was a virulent anti-Semite who was descended from Russian Jews, an advocate of armed revolt who made sure never to be caught with a gun in his hand. He had a genius for combining millenarian racial theology with strategies of violent and pseudo-legal resistance to government authority. The groups he inspired signed up thousands of members, and his ideas infected tens of thousands. Many of the figures who flit through the pages of the book had contact with Gale and his manifestoes, but he himself was not much of a leader. His influence came mostly through others who plagiarized his writings or took over his organizational efforts. Altogether, ''The Terrorist Next Door'' will do little to disabuse the reader of an image of the extreme right as an assemblage of con men, blowhards, crazies and dimwits. In tracing its checkered fortunes, Levitas doesn't hesitate to settle some old scores -- with law enforcement officials who did not take the threat from the right seriously enough, with the neoconservative leaders of the Anti-Defamation League in the 1980's who in his view soft-pedaled the movement's anti-Semitism to cuddle up to evangelical Protestants who supported Israel.

To: Win Smith who wrote (55)	11/18/2002 12:30:25 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 603

A "voracious" black hole is headed our way....but won't be here for 200 million years. chron.com Runaway black hole heading our way Reuters News Services WASHINGTON - A runaway black hole is streaking through the Milky Way galaxy, dragging an aging star along to snack on as it heads in Earth's general direction, astronomers reported today. There is absolutely no need to panic, though: The black hole will get no closer to our solar system than 1,000 light-years, and that will not happen for 200 million years or so. Right now it is between 6,000 and 9,000 light-years away. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year. Still, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to track the black hole are excited about it, because it gives them the best evidence yet that it was created when a star several times the mass of our sun blew up in a vast explosion known as a supernova.