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...getting burned for its handling of the 1993 showdown in Waco with followers of David Koresh [NATION, Sept. 6]. If the FBI has lied repeatedly about what happened in Waco, can it be trusted to tell the truth when it testifies against members of the Waco cult? Juries are expected to assume the honesty of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies. The repeated lies of the FBI in Waco have made its credibility go up in smoke. ROBERT NEMOYER Bridgeview...
...able to gain momentum for their showdown with No. 8 Yale (4-0, 0-0 Ivy) on Saturday, while B.U. (2-2-2) was left thinking "what...
Angry and embarrassed, the Attorney General admitted last week that it appears the FBI fired pyrotechnic military tear-gas rounds during the showdown with the Branch Davidians on April 19, 1993. For years, she and the bureau had denied that such "hot" devices were used, an allegation made by conspiracy buffs who believe the feds set fire to the compound. Reno said last week--and most evidence indicates--the grenades were launched too early in the day and landed too far away to cause the fires. But, she added, "I did not want those [hot grenades] used. I asked...
...front page, the U.S. and Britain have fired 1,100 missiles at 359 targets this year alone (and flown about 65 percent of the number of missions carried out during the Kosovo conflict). The low-key air war, which followed four days of intense bombing in response to a showdown on arms control last December, has failed to alter the strategic equation in Iraq. With Iraq?s leaders and its anti-aircraft gunners as defiant as ever, the administration is now debating whether to up the ante...
...almost ready for their showdown. By a 57-43 vote that got ?- but didn?t need ?- support from four Democrats, Senate Republicans passed their ten-year, $792 billion plan to give Americans an annual April dividend on their surplus. They don?t have a bill that'll go anywhere -? President Clinton, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "will veto anything this big" -? but Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and his House counterpart, Speaker Denny Hastert, have their defining issue. "We want to cut taxes and the President wants to spend it," Lott said after the vote. "That's what...