Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buzzards circled overhead and the wind blew hard on the day the Branch Davidians died. Before the sun came up, state troopers went door to door to the houses near the compound, telling people to stay inside, there might be some noise. Over their loudspeakers, the tired negotiators called one last time for David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully. Then they got on the phone and told him exactly where the tear gas was coming, so he could move the children away. The phone came sailing out the front door. They will make war on the Lamb...
David Koresh must be the only author ever to have the FBI waiting to distribute his manuscript. As soon as the cult leader has finished decoding the symbolism of the seven seals in the Book of Revelation, FBI agents surrounding the compound near Waco, Texas, where Koresh and his Branch Davidian cult are holed up, will pick up the longhand manuscript and convey it to Koresh's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, who will present it to two noted biblical experts for evaluation. Then, Koresh promises, he and 95 followers will finally surrender to federal authorities. That would end a siege that...
...ensuing trials. They will probably claim the protection of the First and Second Amendments for the Davidians' rights to practice even a bizarre religion and to bear even an arsenal of arms. Defense lawyers will also claim the Davidians fired only in self-defense when federal authorities stormed the compound. Four feds and, by Koresh's count, six cultists died...
...have to be approved by the White House, which has let it be known that it is watching closely and hopes for a nonviolent solution. So the feds probably will continue waiting out the Davidians -- for how long, nobody knows. At Satellite City, the press encampment out near the compound, mailboxes have gone up, garbage is regularly collected, an Easter service was held, and there is an unelected mayor. The latest gag among a press corps going quietly mad with boredom is that Waco has become an acronym for We Ain't Coming...
...Alas, matters degenerated. First, the Davidians distanced themselves from the Passover pledge. Then a cult member tried to climb out a compound window after dark, apparently breaching an agreement with the fbi. When agents upbraided Koresh over it, he cursed them. As if to symbolize the new low in communications, they hung...