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This is not a picture of the Branch Davidian cult compound outside Waco, Texas, where 86 persons died in a fire last week after the FBI began an assault. This is a reconstruction of the actual site in Oklahoma where, before the last bodies were removed from the real rubble in Waco, an NBC crew was recording an enactment for a made-for-TV movie airing next month. In Ohio, meanwhile, another standoff, quite real, came to a less violent end as the more than 400 prisoners who took over a state penitentiary surrendered. The death toll was still brutal...
...asked me," says Isabel of Kathy. "She said, 'Mother, do you think I should go to Texas?' " Fatta had introduced Kathy to David Koresh, and Koresh had invited her to Waco for Davidian Passover in 1991. "I said, 'No, you don't know what you're getting into, and it's another state.' " Kathy went anyway. Isabel actually manages a smile: "She was stubborn." She and Fatta talked about marriage, but then broke up; Koresh had prohibited relationships...
...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...
...Book of Revelation, also called the Apocalypse, the breaking of the first four seals by the Lamb of God (which Koresh now calls himself) unlooses the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: conquest, war, famine and death. Arnold thinks Koresh relates them to events in his leadership of the Davidian cult. The opening of the fifth seal discloses "the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God," which to Koresh might seem an obvious reference to the Feb. 28 gun battle. The breaking of the sixth seal produces an earthquake, and Koresh has predicted one soon...
...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...