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- <title>
- Oct. 11, 1993: Life After The Apocalypse
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Oct. 11, 1993 How Life Began
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- LIFE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE, Page 40
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- <p> In the weeks after their home burned to the ground, a dozen
- Branch Davidians found shelter in the Brittney Hotel, across
- a parking lot from the Waco Convention Center in Texas. They
- took comfort in a shared belief in what they saw as scriptural
- assurances that their fallen leader would return. But no resurrection
- has come, and the few who lived in the Brittney have become
- fewer still. "There are only a couple of us left here now,"
- says Catherine Matteson, 77, who had been arrested and led away
- in shackles after leaving Mount Carmel. A few weeks ago, a neighbor,
- Sheila Martin, moved into a house in Waco. Her husband and four
- older children had died in the fire. When Martin won back one
- of her remaining children from foster care, she decided it was
- time to move on.
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- <p> For her part, Matteson lives her life "one day at a time, focusing
- my attention on the people who are in jail, waiting to see what
- happens at their trial." Eleven Branch Davidians face charges
- in the deaths of the four federal agents killed in the Feb.
- 28 raid. Their lawyers, however, have been heartened by the
- Treasury Department report castigating the Bureau of Alcohol,
- Tobacco and Firearms. It is proof, they contend, that ATF--and not their clients--is to blame for the fate of the agents.
- "The ATF had made up its mind and was going there for combat,"
- says Steven Rosen, attorney for Davidian Kevin Whitecliff. Matteson
- says she hopes to attend the trials, which will probably be
- held early next year in either Austin or San Antonio. "Maybe
- in time," she says, "all truths will be put forth."
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- </body>
- </article>
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