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- <text id=93TT1315>
- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: Mood Swings
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 13
- NATION
- Mood Swings
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- <body>
- <p>Disappointments turn into hope for a break in the Waco siege
- </p>
- <p> In the grim standoff near Waco, Texas, between the Branch
- Davidian cult and hundreds of federal officers, negotiations
- swung back and forth between confrontation and conciliation. The
- FBI, having already tightened the psychological screws by
- cutting off power to the 78-acre compound, beamed high-intensity
- lights on the complex at night and avoided cult leader David
- Koresh's endless telephonic religious chatter. Lawmen then had
- their first face-to-face meeting with Koresh's top lieutenants,
- and two days later agents drove three buses to the compound in
- anticipation of a mass surrender of the 105 men, women and
- children still inside. But Koresh abruptly dashed those hopes,
- telling officers that he was leaving the phone to go to the
- bathroom and wouldn't return. On Friday the tone changed once
- again. After FBI agents delivered lawyers' letters and magazines
- requested by the cultists, Koresh told negotiators, "I feel
- there's a new phase coming about. I have a great desire to
- settle this issue." That night two more Davidians, the second
- and third men to depart, left the compound. Authorities were
- again hopeful that an end to the three-week-old deadlock would
- come in days, rather than weeks.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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