THE COURIER-JOURNAL • NATION • TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1998 Anti-govemment spokesman 'Bo' Gritz found shot family at in 1992. Healso ' "I've thought about looking at the James "Bo" fend the community if necessary. despair overhis pendingdivorce. Gritz was Gritz was recovering at an Orofino briefly was a mediator in the Mon Ex-Green Beret Clearwater County Sheriff Nick other end of my pistol a few times hospital yesterday. tana Freemen standoff in 1996. ... because what kind of life do 1 recovering at a Albers said the 59-year-oldGritz shot hospital Claudia Gritz. Bo Gritz's third Gritz first came to prominence in has marital woes, himself in the upper left chest with a have without my bride?" Potok the 1980s when he staged several un quoted Gritz as saying. "I have lived yesterday. A wife, separated from her husband on .45-caliber handgun. Albers would reporter said Aug. 22 and filed for divorce on Sept. successful commando-style forays reporter says not say whether tne shootingwas an such adventures ... but what else is into to retrieve American pris there to live for except for her, real Gritz had been 11. Potok said she cited irreconcilable attempted suicide, but he did say it despondent differences. oners of war. His activities •were was not accidental. ly? She's been my dream girl. Now curbed after U.S. authorities charged ByBOB PICK my realityis mynightmare." over his Gritz told Potok that his wife had Associated Press The wound was not life-threaten pending divorce been upset by his decision to go to him with using a passport under a ing, Albers said. The Southern Poverty Law Center North Carolina to try to find alleged false name. tracks the activities of right-wing from his third BOISE. —James "Bo" Gritz, In an interview on Thursday, Gritz wife. abortion clinic bomber . He ran for president in 1992 and is admitted he had contemplated sui groups. a leader of the Patriot M9vement, a former Green Beret colonel and Albers said a passerby found Gritz His wife left Gritz the day after he leader of the anti-government Patriot cide because of his marital problems, returned from North Carolina. which warns against what it calls a said Mark Potok, editor of the South wounded beside his pickup truck on a community he founded. Those who U.N.-led "New World Order" and ac Movement, was found with a self-in Sunday night just south of Orofino. wish to live there must sign a cov Gritz served as a negotiator in the flicted gunshotwound along a high ern Poverty LawCenter's Intelligence enant stating their willingness to de FBI siege of and his cusesthegovernment of corruption. way near his home after falling into Report. Gritz hves nearby in Almost Heaven,