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...investigation of Waco, public perception has again become a matter of intense concern. If history is any guide, this new round of scrutiny will once again blow the agency into a period of angst and self-doubt. "We've always been defensive," says Charlotte ATF agent in charge Paul Lyon. "We have always been susceptible to light breezes--it doesn't even take a full storm." But this week the agency is bracing itself once again for gale-force winds that may well threaten its survival...
...Charlotte, North Carolina, recently took down a murderous street gang and sent a dozen members to prison, many for life terms. And last month Charlotte agents played a central role in capturing carjackers believed to have killed an Oregon businesswoman, the kind of case special agent in charge Paul Lyon sees as the bureau's "salvation." He feels Congress and the public have turned their back on ATF, even though the bureau is only trying to fulfill a mandate that Congress itself designated. "Now and for years, I have felt what people who came out of Vietnam felt," he says...
...People are more into it this year," said Emily M. Lyon, assistant manager of the Bob Slate stationery store on Massachusetts Avenue. "Perhaps the optimism makes people feel better about giving things away and spending money...
...think the business school has been changing dramatically to fill the needs of the students and the business community," said first-year business student J.B. Lyon. "The administration just has not done a good enough job of publicizing the change that has occurred...
...This graduate of Harvard University wrote a masterpiece which millions of ambitious men wish they had written," William Lyon Phelps, a Yale professor, wrote in 1934 in his definitive poetry anthology. "For Casey's is absolute perfection...