Show m iw imp? jm'f fi (i' fr 'p lyitimyiim yf The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday ' Ji if v d' MONTGOMERY Ala (AP) — Militia groups are more dangerous than ever and it Ls “only a mat- - ' r Kjd £ 1 A AP photo I An bam built in 1928 is moved slowly up highway 5 north of Goessel Kan Thursday morning en route to McPherson Kan The bam was purchased by Beth and Roy Sherman and will provide a home for them and their five children The bam was home to the Barnstormers Restaurant in Goessel until 1993 Contractors on the move were Cook House Moving of Moundridge and Ball and Son Movers of Belleville Moving barn Dinosaur enthusiasts work to uncover prehistoric facts “I'm trying to swim away Then I see the boat coming and I'm waving like mad “I was scared It's a real strange feeling You're the hunted instead of the hunter” Fortunately for Babiarz and thousands of Ari- By The Arizona Republic PHOENIX (AP) — South Carolina's alligator-infeste- d Cooper River was too muddy that day in August 1994 for John Babiarz to see anything H 1 if l! I) through his scuba mask But the Mesa man knows giant fossil shark teeth by touch He has found hundreds by feeling along murky river bottoms Several specimens collected by Babiarz tell stories of predator and prey including bite marks on the skull of a piglike mammal that died 30 million years ago On his Cooper River dive Babiarz collected a bag of teeth and other fossils But when he rose to the river's surface he discovered a different perspective on predator and prey He saw the boat with his friends in it He saw a log moving along the bank and realized it was a big alligator swimming toward him “That thing was near me before you could bat an eye” said Babiarz 48 the owner of Greenfield Cit-ru- s Nursery in Mesa zona dinosaur enthusiasts expected to attend Dinofest International at Arizona State University he beat the alligator to the boat And he had his bag of fossils with him Dinofest which started Monday is said to be the biggest assemblage of dinosaurs in Arizona in 60 million years and one of the greatest concentrations of dinosaur expertise ever anywhere Babiarz was instrumental in persuading backers of the first Dinofest in 1994 in Indianapolis to stage a second larger event said Edmund Stump a geology professor and ASU's point man for the event n Some of the paleontologists in the world including Stephen Jay Gould Jack Horner and Robert Bakkcr an influential University of Colorado paleontologist who is the only scientist mentioned by name in Jurassic Park were scheduled to attend V The report said groups aligned with ter of time before the country endures another nightmare like the Oklahoma City tragedy” a civil !' j 1 1 Report: Militias growing more regulations needed ' : 4 1996 — Page 1 April the militant Patriot movement are far more widespread than previously believed It counted 809 such groups up from 225 last rights group warned Thursday The Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks paramilitary groups white supremacists and hate crimes urged Attorney General Janet Reno to create task force to squelch militia vioa joint federal-stat- e lence It issued a report “False Patriots: The Threat of Antigovernment Extremists” recommending new laws including tighter restrictions on the purchase of bomb-makin- g chemicals and on militia membership The report said groups aligned with the militant Patriot movement are far more widespread than previously believed It counted 809 such groups up from 223 last June Calls to the Justice Department seeking comment about the report were not returned Thursday The report said militia groups are increasingly training in splintered leaderless cells designed to g foil attempts at infiltration and arrest of members Also militias have large amounts of poison and explosives the report said noting last year's arrest in Minnesota of a Patriot leader who had enough poison to kill 1400 people “We’ve gone from the days of shotgun-totin- g klansmen to militia members plotting mass-scadestruction" said Richard Cohen legal director for the private nonprofit group June r The center said it was particularly concerned ideologue William Pierce author of “The Turner Diaries" — to cultivate closer contacts with militia groups Turner's book is the fictional account of an American race war widely cited as a blueprint for the Oklahoma City bombing Speaking from his remote compound in Hillsboro WVa Pierce said Thursday that he has much in common with the militia movement but so far has had little influence on it “I would like to see that change in the future but so far it hasn't” he said “I am pleased by the fact that we have a lot of concerned citizens with strong patriotic feelings who are willing to do more than talk when they feel the country Ls threatened” The law center's top recommendation was that laws states begin enforcing existing Thirty-fostates have laws banning militias or paramilitary training about efforts by neo-Na— the West Virginia-base- d zi high-rankin- anti-milit- ia le ur NEW! 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