Word: koresh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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 inside. But Koresh abruptly dashed those hopes...
...week after the bloody federal assault on cult leader David Koresh's fortress in Waco, Texas, Hollywood came calling at the Bethesda Boys Ranch in Mounds, Oklahoma. A set man from Patchett Kaufman Entertainment, a TV production company, drove by to scout out the 160-acre ranch as a possible location. Three days later, a deal was struck, and last week workmen were at the ranch constructing a replica of Koresh's peach-colored compound. Soon federal agents will be surrounding the fortress again, staging another ill- fated assault, retreating once more for a long waiting game -- this time...
...networks' frenetic pursuit of movies-of-the-week based on real-life news events has ascended into the surrealistic stratosphere. The Koresh saga wasn't ^ even over before its TV-movie doppelganger began taking shape on a movie set 300 miles away. Casting is under way (Timothy Daly of Wings will play Koresh), shooting could begin in as little as two weeks, and NBC hopes to have the finished film on the air in May. If the real-life standoff is still going on, Koresh may even be able to watch it from his fortress to see how the story...
...there are a handful of people who believe Koresh's loony speculations about the end of the world. But not a decade ago, tens of millions of Americans, including many who should have known better, were in the grip of a national anxiety attack about nuclear apocalypse. Jonathan Schell's panicked anticipation of nuclear destruction, modestly titled The Fate of the Earth, was rapturously received. The Day After, a re-creation of the End, was the TV event of the year. Psychologists were dispatched to help kids deal with its anticipated psychological fallout. Hundreds of thousands took to observing "Ground...
...Federal authorities besieging the compound of the Branch Davidian cult outside Waco, Texas, have found no answers. After the Feb. 28 shoot-out that led to perhaps 14 deaths, the feds are loath to rush the cult's heavily armed compound again. Interminable telephone talks with cult leader David Koresh have got nowhere. Koresh did let Kathryn Schroeder, whose husband died in the shoot-out, and an adult man, the first to be let go, come out Friday. That left, it is thought, 88 adults and 17 children inside. Even so, as the siege dragged into its third week, Koresh...