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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...
Costner and his brother Dan, who already own a casino-restaurant in Deadwood, are building a more than $100 million resort there and are ogling the parcel for the compound's planned golf course. The spiritual Sioux find this hard to comprehend. "Costner just wants to make himself more powerful, greater and bigger," claims Sidney Keith, a Lakota Sioux elder. Lakota activist Madonna Thunder Hawk protests, "It's a betrayal. Costner is making millions on our backs...
House hearings into the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, produced partisan sparks and riveting, emotional testimony. Republicans accused federal agents of having bungled the operation. Under harsh questioning, former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said he had no advance knowledge of the raid and played no role in the decision to use tear gas to end the standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of having let the National Rifle Association influence key aspects of the committee investigation. Dramatic testimony also came from a teenager who described how sect leader David Koresh sexually molested her when...
...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...