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...gunfire, the siege near Waco remained a nerve-grinding standoff with a surreal edge last week. Exasperated negotiators, weary of fruitless phone conversations in which Koresh holds forth on scriptural prophecy and heavenly signs, kept up their psychological warfare. After dark, high-intensity spotlights were directed into the compound, which has been without electricity since federal agents cut the power on March 12. At times a helicopter circled overhead, playing a mobile searchlight into windows...
Koresh replied with mind games of his own. After a week in which no one emerged from the compound, six women and three men came out on March 19 and March 21, leaving about 100 members still inside. But their leader repeatedly failed to follow through on hints of a mass surrender. Three times negotiators seemed to be at the verge of a breakthrough, only to have Koresh balk at the last moment. At one point talks came to a standstill while the cult observed a high holy day associated with the new moon...
Still, the appearance of any compound that can positively alter the course of this relentless disease is cause for cautious celebration. "Half a loaf," observes University of Chicago neurologist Dr. Barry Arnason, whose research helped stimulate interest in beta interferon, "is a lot better than no bread." If the FDA goes along with the panel's recommendation and approves the drug, says Stephen Reingold, chief of research for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, "I predict it will be used widely -- and it should...
...GRIM STANDOFF NEAR WACO, TEXAS, BEtween the Branch Davidian cult and hundreds of federal officers, negotiations swung back and forth between confrontation and conciliation. The FBI, having already tightened the psychological screws by cutting off power to the 78-acre compound, beamed high-intensity lights on the complex at night and avoided cult leader David Koresh's endless telephonic religious chatter. Lawmen then had their first face-to-face meeting with Koresh's top lieutenants, and two days later agents drove three buses to the compound in anticipation of a mass surrender of the 105 men, women and children still...
...Mounds, Oklahoma. A set man from Patchett Kaufman Entertainment, a TV production company, drove by to scout out the 160-acre ranch as a possible location. Three days later, a deal was struck, and last week workmen were at the ranch constructing a replica of Koresh's peach-colored compound. Soon federal agents will be surrounding the fortress again, staging another ill- fated assault, retreating once more for a long waiting game -- this time for the TV-movie cameras...