Word: waco
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...those who were residents of Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across...
...days before the trial begins, tourists are making the curious trek to Waco, as they have steadily since the nightmarish days. They don't see much out on EE Road: piles of broken beams and concrete, the husks of two old cars and a trailer, and the Silver Streak Express -- Koresh's bus, which somehow survived the flames and which security guards use as a warming hut -- are about all that remains of the compound. A broken high chair and rusted toys lying in the gray earth provide reminders of the young dead...
...needed that plant," says Round Rock Mayor Charlie Culpepper. "Families need jobs, but government needs to stay out of business." While Governor Ann Richards urged the company to consider other sites in Texas, proposals for tax breaks and cheap real estate poured in from all over the state, including Waco, Gainesville and one other place: a parcel of land in Dallas offered up by the Baptist Foundation of Texas...
...directly involved. This particular article is anything but scrupulous in getting at the facts. Superficial journalism is worse than no journalism, and the article in question is a case in point. Though it seems doubtful that TM would lead to a debacle such as the Branch Davidian conflagration in Waco, Texas last summer, the slow disintegration of ego and self-esteem occasioned by the mind control of more "peaceable" cults can prove to be a living hell to those under its control...
Stone said yesterday he is not a "snooty Harvard professor reprimanding the FBI and Reno for the decisions made" in Waco. Rather, Stone said he needed to point out that the FBI made mistakes by ignoring crucial information which it already had obtained...