Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pounding began a few minutes after 6 a.m., when an armored combat engineer vehicle with a long, insistent steel nose started prodding a corner of the building. Shots rang out from the windows the moment agents began pumping in tear gas. A second CEV joined in, buckling walls, breaking windows, ! nudging, nudging, as though moving the building would move those inside. "This is not an assault!" agent Byron Sage cried over the loudspeakers. "Do not shoot. We are not entering your compound." Ambulances waited a mile back; the local hospital, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, was on alert...
...when she felt the heat rising around her. She worried that her yellow plastic sandals might melt, so she changed into running shoes and looked for a way out. She jumped down from a hole punched in the wall and stumbled forward, smoke coming out of her clothes. An agent spotted her, climbed out of his armored vehicle and ran to her, disappearing into a black plume. By the time he reached her, she was trying to get back inside with her friends and struggled to fight him off, apparently determined to find her way to heaven through hell. "Where...
...snipers kept their rifle scopes trained on the compound's windows, watching as they were fortified for tripod-mounted machine guns that could be fired by a man lying on the floor. "I don't know if anybody has ever spent any time staring through a scope," says one agent, "but I did it for 15 or 20 minutes, and it is terribly disorienting. These people had been there for 50 days...
...still await editing by his top lieutenant, Steve Schneider. So, FBI men sourly note, a surrender may be months off, even if Koresh keeps his word -- and he has reneged on three previous promises to give up. "No one at our place is holding his breath," says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill, the thunder of locomotives -- presumably in the hope that the Davidians might yield just to get some...
...village chief (Lei Lao Sheng) has lost his temper and kicked a man (Liu Pei Qi) where it hurts. But Qiu Ju (Gong Li), the man's wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground. "You'll bow your head...