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...CONGRESS REFUSED TO LISTEN to the voice of the country." In defiance of a conservative legislature that had steadily diminished his powers, Boris Yeltsin declared a "special order of rule" in a nationwide broadcast Saturday night. He announced that a referendum would be held April 25, in which Russians, weary of endless political infighting, would be asked whether they have confidence in him and whether they approve a new constitution. Yeltsin warned that the meeting of Congress two weeks ago was a rehearsal for "the restoration of power of the communist nomenklatura." Yeltsin's move drew immediate criticism from some...
...children's programming. The agency also narrowed its definition of educational fare to exclude entertainment shows that simply have positive social themes. The House hearings last week ratchetted up the pressure another notch. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, produced the requisite sound bite: "Children's TV on commercial broadcast television today remains the video equivalent of a Twinkie...
...publicist," says New York Post reviewer Jami Bernard. "Crafting a sentence that would read well on an ad is not the kind of sentence that would look good in a review. It just brings shame on us all." WCBS-TV's Dennis Cunningham, one of the more restrained broadcast critics, blames the movie companies for "letting it be known that they want wretched excesses or nothing. There used to be people at the studios who wrote ad copy. Now alleged reviewers...
Koresh eventually let 21 children -- none of them his own -- and two elderly women leave the compound, but he remained holed up inside with 90 adults and 17 children awaiting instructions from God. He claimed to be wounded, but he sounded remarkably fit as he broadcast his end-of-the-world message across the airwaves in exchange for a promise to surrender. Meanwhile, more than 200 law- enforcement officers surrounded the compound and waited, day after day, for Koresh to make good on that pledge...
After two days of negotiation that followed the shootout, Koresh promised to surrender himself peacefully if he could deliver a statement on radio. But after his rambling 58-minute address was broadcast on Christian stations around the country, he reneged, saying he was still awaiting "further instructions from God." With Biblical scholars on hand to help them fathom Koresh's thinking, three negotiating teams headed by the FBI remained in periodic phone contact with him and other Davidians. "The constant theme is, 'When are you coming out?' " said Jeffrey Jamar, the FBI agent in charge of the operation...