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...Koresh had stricter rules for his flock than for himself. Beer, meat, air conditioning and MTV, taboo for others, were available to him. So were any of the female members, though the other men were quartered separately from the women and sworn to celibacy. Some of the women whom Koresh termed his wives were already married to male cult members. Others were perhaps as young as 11 or 12. "He was fixated with sex and with a taste for younger girls," says Marc Breault, who belonged to the group in 1988 and 1989. "He began to teach that...
George Bush never faced these problems squarely, although his words always sounded sweet. In seeking to give content to his rhetoric, Clinton is on the right track. What's left for the President now is to bring the "rigor" he has sworn to apply to "everything I do" to programs of great potential but uneven results; what's left, to use Clinton's words, is to finally "do it smart...
...sworn in Monday as chair of the National Intelligence Council, arrives at the Central Intelligence Agency building in McLain, Virginia at 7 a.m., just as the sun peeks over the horizon...
...were postponed six weeks. After condemning as "callous" the Bush policy of turning back boatloads of Haitians, including those with valid asylum claims, Clinton had to reverse himself when he found out that as many as 10,000 Haitians were preparing to brave dangerous seas once he was sworn in. Last week he embraced the Bush policy, at least for the time being, and urged the would-be immigrants to stay home. The Coast Guard dispatched a special armada of 17 cutters and patrol boats to turn back anyone who ignored Clinton's plea...
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land on horse-back and across the oceans by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world...