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...TRAGIC miscalculations, 51 days apart. The cause of the first one, in which four federal agents were killed and 16 wounded, is even murkier than last week's debacle and more likely to bring a massive upheaval at the agency responsible: the 21-year-old Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...Carlton Stowers stared at the hot ruins of David Koresh's compound and tried, like the rest of the nation, to understand the meanings, motives and mystical beliefs that had gone up in smoke. To start, they continued to work contacts within the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, visited sources wherever they could find them and divided the survivors of the fire between them, in the hope that some would talk. The efforts began to pay off when we obtained copies of the last three letters Koresh sent to the FBI. "People may scoff at Koresh...
...February. But faced with the expected multibillion-dollar annual cost of extending medical coverage to all Americans, Health Secretary Donna Shalala and budget guru Alice Rivlin both seemed intrigued by a VAT -- apparently in addition to health care-dedicated revenues to be derived from higher taxes on alcohol and tobacco...
...white slave, the narrator is an American woman residing in Britain who returns home to learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with the animals. He was horsewhipped and chained after he tried to run away. One night Alvah and a traveling salesman subdued Jonathan and with a copper wrench pulled all his teeth...
Practice proved brutal on Bobby's knees, but not nearly as brutal as the media attention. Though he had labored from age six in his father's tobacco, bean and corn fields, had served in Vietnam and had worked on car bodies and pipes for 23 years, he had never been through anything quite like the blitz he endured last month in New York City. "It just drained me. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot. Interview and shoot," he says, looking dazed at the memory. He heard reporters making bets that he'd miss his big shot. "They kept saying...