Word: waco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...April, but already the steamy air hints of the long, hot summer and the big, nasty mosquitoes ahead. A Union Pacific freight train rumbles and clanks along the adjacent railroad tracks--a tortoise to the hares inside Baylor Track Stadium, located in the deceptively named Beverly Hills area of Waco, Texas. It is a place with streets so mean that God would probably hesitate before parking here. It is the place where the greatest athlete in the world trains...
...rather the tour of the Volvo factory, when he was able to test-drive cars and trucks. He also likes to play tennis, and he must be a sight to see going back on lobs. Given all that, Michael Johnson isn't even the first name associated with Waco...
Most people would ask, Why Waco? Johnson asks, Why not? He could have succumbed to the allures of such track havens as ucla, but he prefers the serenity of Baylor and the counsel of Coach Hart. "To tell you the truth," says Johnson, "I never even thought about moving." There is also a practical side to training here--Waco in the summer is even stickier than Atlanta...
...talks Tuesday. "They broke their word to us," Duke said, referring to the Freemen's arguments as "legal gobbledy-gook." Duke's rejection of the Freemen lessens the chance that their confrontation with federal agents will have the same impact on the militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched in to its eighth week. Dawson says...
McVeigh: Their actions in Waco, Texas, were wrong. And I'm not fixated on Waco. It's a very good example of things they have done. Like leaks of false allegations. If I could meet with FBI Director Louis Freeh, I would tell him we better order out pizza because it's going to be a lengthy meeting...