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...still for a woman who has never been a favorite in Clinton's White House, and not just because she has a personal manner so impassive it makes Al Gore look like Jim Carrey. From her first months in the Administration, when she took responsibility for the tragedy at Waco, Texas, that her boss seemed to dodge, Clinton loyalists have complained that Reno had a way of burnishing her own reputation at the expense of the President's. One can imagine what their mood...
...mitigating factors his lawyers raised to humanize him and to try to save his life, the seven men and five women, in part if not as a whole, were willing to believe that McVeigh had been a good soldier and teacher and was deeply affected by the events at Waco and Ruby Ridge--but not one felt that McVeigh was a "good and loyal friend," as the official questionnaire worded it. The jurors unanimously sentenced him to death. McVeigh showed no emotion, and as he was led away, he used two fingers to wave to the jury. He turned...
...punishment, his defense closed with the somewhat incredible argument that McVeigh didn't deserve to die because we were all to blame. "Aren't we all in some way implicated in this crime?" defense attorney Richard Burr asked, arguing that Americans let tyranny reign during the bloody sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. "We all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City," he said. "We should not feel a clear conscience if we kill Tim McVeigh." The tactic smacks of desperation, notes TIME's Adam Cohen. "Now they're just throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks...
...these high-tech times, ranchers had used cell phones to call in warnings to their families as others watched Doppler Radar reports on Austin and Waco television stations. Al Clawson, the owner of a small recycling plant, was at home when the tornado siren went off. "I seen the tornado on TV, and I called my wife and daughters at the plant and told them to get in their cars and run," he says. And run they did. The twister was a malignantly playful one, first appearing as a single funnel, drawing back and then suddenly combining at least three...
While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but when shoppers who had taken refuge in the freezer section emerged, they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department...