Word: teared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door to the houses near the compound, telling people to stay inside, there might be some noise. Over their loudspeakers, the tired negotiators called one last time for David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully. Then they got on the phone and told him exactly where the tear gas was coming, so he could move the children away. The phone came sailing out the front door. They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them...
...pounding began a few minutes after 6 a.m., when an armored combat engineer vehicle with a long, insistent steel nose started prodding a corner of the building. Shots rang out from the windows the moment agents began pumping in tear gas. A second CEV joined in, buckling walls, breaking windows, ! nudging, nudging, as though moving the building would move those inside. "This is not an assault!" agent Byron Sage cried over the loudspeakers. "Do not shoot. We are not entering your compound." Ambulances waited a mile back; the local hospital, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, was on alert...
Increasingly frustrated, federal authorities are talking of forcible ways to end the siege. They are believed to be considering using tear gas and other nonlethal chemicals, trying to shoot Koresh by sniper fire through a window, or crumbling a corner of the building by ramming tanks or other armored vehicles into it. But they worry about harming the 17 children thought to be inside. In practice, any use of force would have to be approved by the White House, which has let it be known that it is watching closely and hopes for a nonviolent solution. So the feds probably...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...
Oppenheimer said he did not tear down the poster to prevent Wasinger from expressing his views. He said he saw that there were several other AALARM posters on the same bulletin board and he knew Wasinger, who carried a stack of posters, would put up a new poster in its place...