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Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, another object of Nuwaubian ire, says he fears that young people are being held against their will. "No one in Georgia has ever dealt with anything like this," he says. "You only draw parallels to Waco, and I don't want a Waco. This is a cult." A Nuwaubian spokesman scoffs at the idea: "There is no one being held on Tama-Re against their will. No one is allowed to move to Tama-Re that is under 18. The children that are here belong to grown adults who have made the choice...
...could come from the family of Dave Sanders, the teacher who bled to death while waiting three hours for help. Yet any suit against the police would again run into immunity problems, as well as the reluctance of courts to second-guess police on tactics. "It's not like Waco, where law enforcement's own action produced the death," says Denver trial lawyer Bill Keating...
...Waco, the Crimson suffered their first defeat of the break, losing 4-5 to Big 12 foe Baylor...
...Waco, the Crimson suffered their first defeat of the break, losing 4-5 to Big 12 foe Baylor...
Indeed, her career at the Justice Department, he says, has been marked by a number of low points, "not the least of which were the Waco tragedy and her repeated indecisions over appointing independent counsels to investigate Clinton campaign finances." Ironically, though, Reno will go down in history as the attorney general who actually approved the appointment of more independent counsels than any other: seven, to investigate various administration figures. Moreover, one of those independent counsels, Kenneth Starr, has become the first one to trigger the impeachment trial of a president. Beat that, William Wirt...