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After the Supreme Court turned down two last-minute appeals by the Citadel, Shannon Faulkner won her fight to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history. Amid protesters and supporters, she finally enrolled on Saturday...
Arlen Specter's decision to go ahead with Senate Ruby Ridge hearings despite an Administration request to delay until its criminal investigation is complete "is both understandable and political," saysTIME's Elaine Shannon."As a presidential candidate, Specter of course wants to maximize his television exposure; but we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that this murky, deeply troubling incident has yet to be adequately investigated, and the Justice Department could be accused of stonewalling. Members of Congress are legitimately under pressure to examine this incident." Nonetheless, if the hearings are held this fall, many witnesses will likely cite...
Despite unprecedented partisanship and infighting during the ten days of Waco hearings, Shannon says, the televised proceedings unearthed new material and put the American public in a far better position to judge the government's role in the tragedy. "Most Americans had never seen these FBI people -- the FBI agents and the hostage rescue teams -- and it helps them make up their own mind about whether they did the best they could. There was an overwhelming sense, even among most of the Republicans, that David Koresh was evil. The hearings established in the minds of many people that the agents...
...Kathleen Adams, Nick Catoggio, Belinda Luscombe, Lawrence Mondi, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin, Alain L. Sanders and Elaine Shannon...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, facing in record unpopularity and mired in internal crisis, on Wednesday will have to weather new congressional hearings into the 1993 federal siege in which 91 people died near Waco, Texas. TIME's Elaine Shannon reports that two GOP-dominated House committees plan to begin eight days of testimony by examining whether the ATF should have targeted the Branch Davidian compound in the first place. "It's hard to find anybody in Washington who thinks they did," she says. "The Clinton Administration cannot come out of this looking very good, since the Branch Davidians...