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...fraction-of-an-inch-long slivers of wood said to be pieces of Christ's Cross -- previously authenticated as relics by the Vatican -- sold at auction for more than $18,000 in Paris. Though the proceeds went to charity, the Vatican called the sale a possible...
...strayed from his commands, their punishment was severe (though one survivor insisted such redress was basic "Christian discipline"). Disobedience frequently brought out the "helper," a paddle often wielded by Koresh's "mighty men" in the "whipping room" just off the first floor. The instrument left circle-shaped lesions, an inch across, on the children's buttocks. Koresh's son Cyrus, when he was three years old, once refused a command and, according to a former cult member, was starved for two days and forced to sleep on a garage floor where Koresh told him large rats prowled...
...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 of chances to take out Koresh. But the agency's rules of engagement forbid them to fire on anyone if they are not directly threatened themselves...
...three months after it happened, signs of the spill remain. Walking areas on the first four floors of Building D are covered with half-inch thick plywood, with 18 planks of wood alone stretching over large parts of the first floor. The floor of the building's main elevator also has a plywood covering...
...June 20, 1991, I reported for my first day of work at the billing office of a health maintenance organization (HMO). Sitting on the desk in front of me was a calculator and two twelve-inch-high stacks of charge sheets. My job: to wade through the charge sheets, tabulating total daily fees. Later, I would enter the billing information into patient accounts so that charges could be mailed to insurance companies...