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...GRIM STANDOFF NEAR WACO, TEXAS, BEtween the Branch Davidian cult and hundreds of federal officers, negotiations swung back and forth between confrontation and conciliation. The FBI, having already tightened the psychological screws by cutting off power to the 78-acre compound, beamed high-intensity lights on the complex at night and avoided cult leader David Koresh's endless telephonic religious chatter. Lawmen then had their first face-to-face meeting with Koresh's top lieutenants, and two days later agents drove three buses to the compound in anticipation of a mass surrender of the 105 men, women and children still...
...DOES ONE INDUCE THE MESSIAH TO SURRENDER to an unbelieving world he just knows is likely to clap him in jail for life? Federal authorities besieging the compound of the Branch Davidian cult outside Waco, Texas, have found no answers. After the Feb. 28 shoot-out that led to perhaps 14 deaths, the feds are loath to rush the cult's heavily armed compound again. Interminable telephone talks with cult leader David Koresh have got nowhere. Koresh did let Kathryn Schroeder, whose husband died in the shoot-out, and an adult man, the first to be let go, come...
Perhaps most intriguing, the two men shared a joint bank account at the branch of the National Westminster Bank located near Al-Salam Mosque, where investigators say the men placed several deposits of less than $10,000. Federal agents say at least $8,000 was transferred to the account from Germany last year and was withdrawn by Salameh. One bank employee said, "We are talking about small amounts -- well under anything that would raise any kind of suspicion." Precht insists that the total account never exceeded $10,000 and was closed shortly before Ayyad's marriage last December...
...ornately pilastered hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, the Deputies unhesitatingly voted by large majorities to cancel all previous power-sharing compromises with Yeltsin, ban the April referendum, strip away the President's power to issue decrees and put the Cabinet under parliamentary control. In effect, the executive branch was neutralized and parliament took over as arbiter of personnel and policy. On Friday, when the President's proposed amendments were rejected overwhelmingly, a grim-faced Yeltsin strode out of the hall...
...line-item veto is also a matter of forcing a delinquent branch of government to take responsibility for its actions (or rather, its inactions). In this case, the guilty party is the Executive Branch. For 12 years we have been hearing from Presidents that the budget deficit is the legislature's fault because "Congress appropriates every dime." That's true. But Presidents submit an annual budget, and neither Bush nor Ronald Reagan ever came close to submitting a balanced...