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- <title>
- May 10, 1993: Amongst the Ashes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- NATION, Page 22
- Amongst the Ashes
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Waco's aftermath yields a bitter taste in Texas and
- Washington
- </p>
- <p> Success has many fathers, and failure is an orphan. That
- is clear as the long process of fixing responsibility for the
- Waco tragedy has begun. In Texas, arson investigators
- discounted the idea that the FBI started the April 19 blaze,
- since it flared up in at least two places at once and too late
- to have been caused by a government tank toppling a kerosene
- lamp. Working the same grisly ground, other experts said 72
- people died that day, 14 fewer than suggested by figures Koresh
- provided before the fire. Autopsies performed so far were
- reported to reveal that bullets to the head killed 12,
- indicating either suicide or murder.
- </p>
- <p> It was in Washington that the progression from shock to
- anger was most obvious. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen
- admitted to being "deeply troubled" at conflicting statements
- on whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knew
- Koresh had been tipped off before its initial February raid; ATF
- head Stephen Higgins promptly expressed a willingness to resign.
- And during a hearing in the House, Michigan Congressman John
- Conyers Jr. exploded at Attorney General Janet Reno, calling the
- government's actions "a profound disgrace to law enforcement"
- and implying she was trying to "rationalize" the deaths. With
- emotion, Reno responded, "I feel more strongly about ((them))
- than you will ever know."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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