61.   Militia leaders in Michigan and other states say their groups were formed solely to defend their communities against the federal government.

62.   Militia leaders say they are trying to recruit more women and minorities, especially African-Americans who participated in the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

63.   Ms. Albright came to shore up the Nigerian peacekeepers and to browbeat the militia leaders into getting back to the peace plan.

64.   Militia leaders deny such assertions, and some experts say militia members, despite tough talk, are not as dangerous as smaller movements of armed conspiracy theorists.

65.   Most militia leaders abhor the Oklahoma bombing and stress their respectability.

66.   Officials in The Hague said the militia leader had not tried to contact the court or to seek a deal for himself.

67.   One variation of the rumor suggested that government agents would try to discredit militia leaders by bombing a federal building and blaming it on paramilitary groups.

68.   One of the most famous, militia leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a delegate and well-known Islamic fundamentalist, rose to back the government candidate.

69.   Palestinian militia leaders say the fighting will continue until the occupation ends and the settlements are removed.

70.   Several videotapes made undercover at a Wisconsin anti-tax rally last year show militia leaders and abortion opponents meeting, Feldt said.