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...elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...
This is the third provocative reconsideration of early Christian belief by Pagels, 52, an Episcopal churchgoer, though not one who counts herself a conventional believer. In The Gnostic Gospels, about the early Christian sect whose members aimed at mystical communion of the individual with God, Pagels set out a scriptural alternative that was shunned from the outset by the institutional church. In 1988 she published Adam, Eve and the Serpent, a study of the influential way St. Augustine read the Garden of Eden story as a symbol of man's fall, though some earlier Christians had seen...
...advance knowledge of the raid and played no role in the decision to use tear gas to end the standoff. Democrats accused Republicans of having let the National Rifle Association influence key aspects of the committee investigation. Dramatic testimony also came from a teenager who described how sect leader David Koresh sexually molested her when...
...took up with another co-worker, David Smith. The second of three children born to Barbara and Charles David Smith, a U.S. Navy veteran who twice served in Vietnam, David had his adolescent troubles as well. His mother is a devout Jehovah's Witness, but David chafed under the sect's strict rules and social isolation. "I wouldn't say David had it easy," says Christy Jennings, his first girlfriend. "I mean, for a long time [David and his siblings] kept to themselves and could only play with some of those kids out there where they were raised...
...involvement in thedeadly poisoning on Tokyo's subway. After all, he said: "I have so many followers, it's impossible for me to know what everybody's doing." Yet even as the cult leader maintained his innocence, police discovered another huge storehouse of nerve gas ingredients in the sect's Mt. Fuji compound. Asahara is getting no help from his followers. Under questioning, theguru's top lieutenants have said that Asahara masterminded the attack, having laid plans two years ago for the cult to start manufacturing chemical weapons. Officials have now arrested all but seven of the 41 cult members...