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Resolving a standoff between environmentalists and agribusiness, the Interior Department announced a tentative agreement with Florida and that state's vegetable farmers and sugar industry on a $465 million plan to restore the Everglades. Phosphorus pollution from fertilizer and the diversion of water by overdevelopment have contributed to the transformation of what was a 4 million-acre freshwater marsh into a murky 2 million-acre swamp...
After a 20-hour standoff, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the radical Muslim cleric who federal authorities believe is connected to terrorists, left a mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and surrendered peaceably to immigration authorities. The Justice Department decided to detain Abdel Rahman after he tried to elude surveillance by federal agents...
Even though the cold war is over, leaders like Kim are making the world a more, not less, dangerous place. The superpower standoff that exerted precarious control over the use and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has vanished along with the Soviet empire. North Korea has not only embarked on the road to the bomb, but according to many analysts, it has actually arrived. It reportedly has enough plutonium for at least one nuclear bomb, and it has successfully test-fired a new missile, the 650-mile-range No- Dong I, that could reach beyond South Korea to Japan...
...days, until last Monday morning, members of our Waco coverage team waited for the standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidians to resolve itself. They interviewed federal agents, local residents and family members in an often frustrating attempt to sense what was going on within the compound and what the FBI intended to do. Then suddenly Monday morning Richard Woodbury, our Houston bureau chief, found himself returning pell-mell up Highway 6 from a weekend at home, knowing that the patient journalistic groundwork was about to be tested. He and Atlanta bureau chief Michael Riley, Los Angeles correspondent Sally...
...Koresh and his followers heightened the melodrama, their ties with the outside world became irretrievably broken. "The adulation of this confined group works on this charismatic leader so that he in turn spirals into greater and greater paranoia," says Murray Miron, a psychologist who advised the FBI during the standoff. "He's playing a role that his followers have cast him in." In the end, Koresh and his flock may have magnified one another's needs. He looked to them to confirm his belief that he was God's appointed one, destined for a martyr's death. They looked...