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...before, TIME photographer Chris Usher was in Waco with members of the White House staff. "They said: 'the president is going to Baghdad in two hours,'" Usher said. "We all thought it was a joke." They were forbidden to tell anyone. "Not even my wife knows where I am," said Fox News soundman John Wallace, who had been bundled into a car by White House officials and driven with about 10 other journalists to the airfield. "Everyone thinks we're with Bush in Waco...
...major, he helped invade Grenada. In 1992, as a colonel, he led the manhunt in Colombia for drug lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October 1993, in downtown Mogadishu. He and his troops were there when 18 soldiers died in an effort to snatch a Somali warlord--a tough day immortalized in Mark Bowden's book Black Hawk Down. Boykin...
...glory of Nike-sponsored athletic teams and school cafeterias Brought to You by the Coca-Cola Corporation, I am not convinced that the benefits of growing up in these Branded United States of America outweigh the unique experience of a childhood really spent in places like Kingman, Arizona or Waco, Texas—my father’s childhood hometowns...
...with a unique experience, the idea of being defined in part by your hometown, has all but disappeared from American cities and is well on its way to leaving the last of the small towns and urban enclaves. Kingman’s population has eclipsed 30,000 and Waco is now a burgeoning metropolis of over 100,000 so there is little escaping the Americanization of America there...
...pressure mounted on prisons to relieve overcrowding, McDuff was paroled along with many other longtime inmates. He settled in Waco, Texas, and it wasn't long before young women in the area went missing. Authorities believe McDuff killed as many as eight before police finally caught on to him in 1992. Earle's office prosecuted McDuff for the murder of Colleen Reed, a 28-year-old accountant he had kidnapped from an Austin car wash, raped and killed. In 1994 McDuff was again sentenced to die, and he was executed four years later...