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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
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 13
NATION
Mood Swings
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<p>Disappointments turn into hope for a break in the Waco siege
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<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.
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