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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department report has concluded that Janet Reno exhausted all "reasonable alternatives" before approving an assault on David Koresh's Waco compound last spring, and cleared the Attorney General of having made any mistakes. It does conclude, though, that there was bitter wrangling within the fbi about what tactics to use during the 51-day crisis, and that Reno's claim of child abuse during the standoff was unsupported by fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest October 3-9 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Among the new films in the show are "HospitalHell" featuring "Rick the Dick," a characterdestined to become popular for his mumbling cursesand senseless spite. David Koresh makesappearances in two films, "Chainsaw Bob in a CULTClassic," and the latest "Nana and Lil' Puss" filmin which Nana goes to Heaven...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Cartoons For the Creepy | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" isa show inspired by junior-high cruelty, toilethumor and childish revenge fantasies. Cute birdsare smashed with hammers, the Roman god of fecesmakes an appearance, and David Koresh is pureed bya chainsaw. Only a select bunch have stomachssolid enough to sit through the whole show...

Author: By Christopher J. Hernandez, | Title: Cartoons For the Creepy | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...White House has its Situation Room, the Pentagon its walls full of maps, but America's command center for fighting unconventional wars these days is Janet Reno's inner office. First it was the showdown with David Koresh in Waco, Texas, a biblical battle over lost souls; two weeks ago, it was terrorism, when she laid out for President Clinton the case against Iraq for plotting to kill former President Bush and tracked the serial bomber who wounded professors in Connecticut and California. Last week it was Sheik Rahman, when once again Reno's agents from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...supremely fitting that David Koresh fronted a rock-'n'-roll band because many kids look for the same things from a rock group that they do from a cult: a sense of belonging, a sense of worship and the feeling that what they're doing will drive their parents absolutely crazy. Singer Perry Farrell's previous band, the Los Angeles-based alternative-rock quartet Jane's Addiction, provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing With Fire | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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