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However, after he refused to fol low an order to signify that the frail ship was ready for combat, the Navy threatened to court-martial him. Hagerty says, though, that the Navy decided instead to discharge him "when faced with the proposal of an Ivy League officer rotting in their jail...
...never knew what he was going to be," says Kiri Jewell, 12, who was taken from the compound by her natural father in 1991. "One minute he was nice, and the next he was suddenly nasty." The children also learned songs filled with violent apocalyptic imagery. War and martial-arts films proliferated in the cult's video library. Koresh preached that the world was full of "bad guys," hurtful unbelievers out to kill the Davidians. Mistrust everyone, he said; deceive all non-believers. At Waco's Methodist Home, where the compound children were housed following their release, Perry, carrying...
...BOTTOM LINE: A high-kicking biography of the martial-arts star proves that nothing succeeds like excess...
...from under him because the network doesn't want the Chinese hero played by a Chinese actor (hence the lead in Kung Fu goes to David Carradine). Bruce returns to his roots, from which he draws the beginnings of a new career as the protagonist of cultishly successful martial-arts movies. Soon, however, he is paying the accustomed costs of stardom: turning into a temperamental workaholic, neglecting his family. Just as it seems that superstardom is about to end his problems, a cerebral edema ends his life at a mere 32 years...
...from his face last February, the 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico wheeled and shot the boy in the stomach, also wounding a bystander. He claimed self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault, stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve thousand U.S. servicemen remain in Somalia, though Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, who visited them last week, says most should depart in the "not too distant future." For many, even the meanest...