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...peace effort will be determined. Officers and men alike declare they would consider any concessions a betrayal. They will fight to the last man rather than give up one foot of the ground they have won. In an eerie way, the Serbs in Doboj are not unlike the Branch Davidians in Waco, devotees of a cult of victimization: isolated from the outside world, hunkered down against forces that want to remove them, certain of their beliefs. Like the Branch Davidians, they are ready for Armageddon if it comes. But they will not be moved...
...home looked warm and welcoming enough to the young Branch Davidian girl. She was fascinated with the hot running water, flush toilets, heated food. The Waco compound had no such comforts. But upon passing a door leading to the basement, the youngster froze. "Do you have a whipping room down there?" she asked her new guardians. "No," answered the woman who now cared for her, "do you have one?" "Yes," said the little girl. "When they don't want everyone to hear us, they take us down there...
...Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles. "The world has changed." The National Urban League, one of America's oldest civil rights organizations, has always focused on education and job training. This spring, using a two-year, $1 million grant from Atlantic Richfield, the League's Los Angeles branch will open a business development and training center to teach black would-be entrepreneurs the fine points of starting and managing their own businesses and to provide technical assistance and information for existing small-business owners...
DAVID KORESH WASN'T A REAL MESSIAH: HE COULDN'T TURN water into wine, and perhaps that's why he so valued his private stash of Scotch whisky. TIME has learned that three Branch Davidian cultists who left Ranch Apocalypse before the conflagration and surrendered were forced to leave by Koresh for getting into the would-be prophet's Scotch cache. At first Koresh punished the three -- Kevin Whitecliff, Brad Branch and Oliver Gyarfas -- by ordering them to bury a rotting corpse. Finally the Scotch-drinking cult leader had them thrown out. The trio are being held in jail...
...University of Hawaii in 1986, he tried for a while to start his own church. He next applied for a job as minister at the local Adventist church. It was shortly after being turned down that he and his wife Judy met Marc Breault, then a recruiter for the Branch Davidians, an Adventist offshoot. Soon Schneider was gathering converts as far afield as Australia...