The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1988
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Addam Swapp, who led a polygamist clan’s 13-day standoff with authorities, pleaded innocent to federal charges stemming from the bombing of a Mormon chapel. Swapp’s appearance in federal court in Salt Lake City came just hours after he was released from a hospital where he spent a week recuperating from bullet wounds suffered in a shoot-ou1948284777Corrections officer died in the gunfire.
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