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THE WEEK, Page 23SOCIETYOutlaws on the Left and Right
Two disparate radicals battle what they see as an oppressive
society
Urban, leftist, academic Berkeley, California, and remote
northern Idaho don't share a lot. But both places have become
havens for Americans who have dropped out of the workaday
culture, who have a paranoid streak, and who view the very
concept of government as oppressive.
--In Berkeley police said Rosebud Abigail Denovo, 19,
broke into the mansion of University of California chancellor
Chang-Lin Tien intending to kill him. Part of a self-styled
"People's Will Direct Action Committee," Denovo took part in
protests over plans by the university and the city of Berkeley
to build volleyball courts at People's Park, long a refuge of
the homeless. She had a history of psychiatric treatment and was
arrested last year for stashing explosives at a bivouac in the
Berkeley hills.
Denovo was shot dead by an officer who said she lunged at
him with a machete when she was cornered in the chancellor's
residence. A note found inside her duffel bag bore the message,
"We are willing to die for this land. Are you?"
-- In Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing
to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin
near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal
marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his
mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear
for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off
shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's
13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were
killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin.
Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris, 24, with
murdering Degan. Weaver's wife Vicki was killed in a second
gunfight.
Weaver, 44, has ties to the racist Aryan Nations sect
based in Hayden Lake, 60 miles to the south. Some neighbors,
saying Weaver simply wants the government to leave him alone,
brought food and mail to the cabin after Weaver retreated there
last year. After the shoot-out, as officers cordoned off the
mountain, local sympathizers shouted obscenities at police
manning the roadblock and vowed, "We'll get you!" At week's end
Weaver, his remaining three children and Harris continued to
hunker down as lawmen used loudspeakers to broadcast appeals
from family members and friends urging the outlaw to surrender.