Word: exit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republican John McCain is a leader of the opposition to bombing. Many members of Congress are calling for clear explanations from Clinton. Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and one of Capitol Hill's leading military experts, says, "There ought to be a clear exit point. We ought to know how we're going...
...least likely to hurt the children. The vehicles exhaled clouds through the entire building, punching hole after hole through the walls as the rounds of bullets rained down. Fleeing the gas, women and children clustered in the center of the second floor, from which there was no exit. Then suddenly the firing stopped, and a white flag emerged from the front door. "Outstanding!" thought the leader of the Hostage Rescue Team. "It's gonna work." Koresh's chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, retrieved the telephone, and the agents felt a moment of hope. But the firing began again. Then the angel...
...impatient audience, it may have appeared that all the officials had done for 51 days was stand and wait and watch. But members of the hrt, especially the snipers, had been on constant alert and were wearing down. "My very first concern was that the Davidians would exit the compound with a child in one hand and an AK-47 in the other," Coulson says. "The only civilian unit that can eliminate the subject without eliminating the child are hrt snipers. They can hit a quarter-inch target at 200 meters." That meant, of course, that they had any number...
...Schneider was the only game in town. Early in March, when he claimed he had 30 cultists ready to exit, the feds dutifully produced a bus. Koresh nixed the deal. Schneider hired a lawyer who, along with Koresh's, outlined an end- of-Passover surrender. That never happened either. "We put a lot of pressure on him that we hoped he could live up to," says Sage. "But he couldn...
...many words, but that's the view he bought. He'd gotten here, for chrisakes, and the polls said the people were with him, so he decided he'd stick it to the obstructionists." The President's innate arrogance took over. "Bill Clinton firmly believes he can exit any jam and gain any success simply because he's so smart and works so hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early...