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...wind blew hard on the day the Branch Davidians died. Before the sun came up, state troopers went door to door to the houses near the compound, telling people to stay inside, there might be some noise. Over their loudspeakers, the tired negotiators called one last time for David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully. Then they got on the phone and told him exactly where the tear gas was coming, so he could move the children away. The phone came sailing out the front door. They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them...
...Koresh left his apartment on the top floor and stalked the halls. "Get your gas masks on," he told them. The masks would protect them for hours, even days if they could manage to change the filters. Once equipped, people went about their chores: women did the laundry, cleaned, or read the Bible in their rooms, even as a tank crashed through the front door, past the piano, the potato sacks and the propane tank barricaded against...
...will a ninth-grade dropout who plainly relishes the glare of world publicity relinquish it all to lead his followers into prison? "Koresh is blowing smoke," says Wayman Mullins, a criminal-justice professor and hostage-negotiations trainer at Southwest Texas State University. "It's notoriety and grandstanding...
Increasingly frustrated, federal authorities are talking of forcible ways to end the siege. They are believed to be considering using tear gas and other nonlethal chemicals, trying to shoot Koresh by sniper fire through a window, or crumbling a corner of the building by ramming tanks or other armored vehicles into it. But they worry about harming the 17 children thought to be inside. In practice, any use of force would have to be approved by the White House, which has let it be known that it is watching closely and hopes for a nonviolent solution. So the feds probably...
...Koresh pursues biblical scholarship, while the world waits...