Word: compounded
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...peacekeepers if the U.N. did not send a high-ranking negotiator. The Serbs made that impossible by closing the approach road and next day opened up with mortar and artillery fire. The Bosnian government forces responded, and some of their shells, by accident or design, landed in the Ukrainian compound, causing heavy damage...
...sharply at odds with FBI and Clinton Administration accounts. The FBI shot first, he told House members, and at least one Davidian was killed by helicopter fire. Both assertions have been flatly denied by the FBI. But Doyle also contradicted himself. Days after the raid he said the compound fire was started inside with Coleman fuel; today he couldn't remember. Defending the Administration today, former deputy attorney general Webster Hubbell, who recently testified at Senate Whitewater hearings, was grilled by House Republicans, but held fast to Attorney General Reno's claim that President Clinton at no time pressured...
Susan Smith's defense rested, clearing the way for jury deliberation over the death penalty, after a parade of relatives and friends testified that sending the 23-year-old woman to the electric chair would only compound the tragedy of her sons' deaths. The most wrenching moment, TIME's Lisa Towle reports, came when Beverly Russell, Smith's stepfather, declared his remorse for years of sexual abuse. "If I'd known at the time what the result of my sin would be," said Russell, formerly a leading figure in the Christian Coalition, "I would have mustered the strength to behave...
...raid commanders did not even arrange to have the telephone number for the compound on the day of the raid," the report says. In the midst of the gun battle, an agent did find the number-jotted on a calendar in the undercover house...
...point, an ATF agent posing as a United Parcel Service trainee accompanied a UPS driver during a delivery to the compound, but the act failed to be convincing. The truck stopped first at an outlying building, where the ATF agent insisted that the driver ask Koresh's followers to let them use the phone and a bathroom, something that a UPS driver wouldn't ordinarily do. This accomplished, they then moved on to the compound itself to try the same plan again. This time, Koresh and another member, David Jones, met them at the gate. Jones was carrying a roll...