Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soldiers burst through the underground bunker's door, safeties off, trigger fingers tense. If the purloined gold--some $23 million worth--is anywhere, it's likely to be here--heavily, nervously guarded...
...Gates turns out to be right. Wielding their guns, they enter the designated bunker, Gates holding the cease-fire agreement in front of him like a search warrant, repeating, "In the name of President Bush, and under the terms of the cease fire-agreement, let us through. We are here for your protection and safety." The Iraqis show no fear or hostility, and surround them with pleas for food, medicine and help. This reception is not what they expect, and this scene of the movie, shot with grainy, color-saturated ektachrome film, presents their situation as almost surreal. The walls...
...thus fitting that the gold is found in a bunker whose entrance is hidden in a well. Instead of water, which is the difference between life and death in the desert, we find money, appliances and rolex watches. We find that these items, too, are important for survival; as currency value is deflated, luxury items and automobiles are traded for food...
...material. Last week he told TIME that a second pair of 40-mm pyrotechnic projectiles may have been used at Waco. The devices, he says, were fired as the others were--from grenade launchers--but unlike the two that the FBI admitted were fired at a concrete bunker, this second pair passed through the wooden main building of David Koresh's compound. FBI officials aren't ready to issue a categorical denial until the new investigation is completed, but they suspect McNulty is citing an inventory in which Rangers mislabeled two items as military gas projectiles. The inventory, they...
...latitude to make operational decisions without seeking clearance from FBI headquarters or from Reno? And why didn't FBI lawyers alert Freeh and Reno when, in February 1996, they received a memo from Quantico reporting that HRT operators had sought and received permission to attempt to gas the concrete bunker with military rounds that had "the potential for causing a fire"? And did conflicts within the federal team at Waco play any role in the decision making? Byron Sage, now retired but in 1993 the FBI negotiator at the compound, confirms seeing graffiti in the HRT Porta-Johns...