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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: Besieging the Messiah
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- Besieging the Messiah
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- <body>
- <p>The wait outside a cult compound in Texas drags into a third
- week
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- <p> How does one induce the Messiah to surrender to an
- unbelieving world he just knows is likely to clap him in jail
- for life? Federal authorities besieging the compound of the
- Branch Davidian cult outside Waco, Texas, have found no answers.
- After the Feb. 28 shoot-out that led to perhaps 14 deaths, the
- feds are loath to rush the cult's heavily armed compound again.
- Interminable telephone talks with cult leader David Koresh have
- got nowhere. Koresh did let Kathryn Schroeder, whose husband
- died in the shoot-out, and an adult man, the first to be let go,
- come out Friday. That left, it is thought, 88 adults and 17
- children inside. Even so, as the siege dragged into its third
- week, Koresh sounded eager for an apocalypse.
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- </body>
- </article>
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