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...short, rumpled lawyer named Danny Coulson watched it all on a TV monitor from the "submarine," the FBI's windowless command center in Washington. His FBI supervisors and Attorney General Janet Reno had been there following the progress all morning. Coulson's eyes were tired, black underneath, but he was hopeful by nature and still thought the plan would work. He founded the hrt, and he had been here before. When the first flames came, the room went dead silent. "Well, he's burning the arms," Coulson thought, "and he'll walk out and say, 'Prove I had automatic weapons...
...days and long nights before the finale, the questions belonged to Janet Reno. A month into her job, Reno confronted a disaster she had done nothing to create. The drama in the Texas prairie began as she was still standing in the wings, mourning her mother and awaiting the Senate's confirmation. Reno grew up in the swamps where alligators still wander -- her mother used to wrestle them -- and for 15 years she was in charge of enforcing laws in a city where lawbreaking is a spectator sport. But nothing could have quite prepared her for the choices she faced...
...came to her on Monday with their plan, laid out in a wine-colored briefing book. That started a week of meetings, briefings, phone calls and more meetings in which Reno probed the motives and methods the bureau had laid...
...cult leader had broken one deal after another, officials reminded Reno. "There were never any real negotiations," says Jeffrey Jamar, the beefy FBI agent in charge on the ground. "We stayed in touch to avoid provocation, but everything was done on his time -- he was in strict control." Negotiators had learned that Koresh had a particular dread of jail, a fear of being raped. "He had all the wives, food and liquor he wanted," Coulson says. "Inside, he's God. Outside, he's an inmate on trial for his life. What was he going...
...have been given a pause, not a plan." But after the verdict in the second King trial was read early Saturday morning, most voices raised were ones of relief and approval. President Clinton stated that the King panel had "really tried to do justice." His Attorney General, Janet Reno, simplified: "Justice was done." And near the intersection of Florence and Normandie, the South Central epicenter of last year's riots, a man exulted. "We're going to barbecue," he said. "We're going to relax. We can enjoy ourselves...