Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home looked warm and welcoming enough to the young Branch Davidian girl. She was fascinated with the hot running water, flush toilets, heated food. The Waco compound had no such comforts. But upon passing a door leading to the basement, the youngster froze. "Do you have a whipping room down there?" she asked her new guardians. "No," answered the woman who now cared for her, "do you have one?" "Yes," said the little girl. "When they don't want everyone to hear us, they take us down there...
...famed Angkor temple complex. Later in the week a Japanese policeman was killed and an additional eight Japanese and Dutch peacekeepers were wounded in a rocket attack in the province of Banteay Meanchay. The Khmer Rouge apparently even turned on their former main ally, China, by shelling a U.N. compound housing 200 Chinese peacekeepers...
...replied, "I haven't tried to rationalize the death of children, Congressman. I feel more strongly about it than you will ever know. But I have neither tried to rationalize the death of four ((Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms)) agents, and I will not walk away from a compound where ATF agents had been killed by people who knew they were agents and leave them unsurrounded." Then she added, "Most of all, Congressman, I will not engage in recrimination...
Cover: Photomontage: Explosion of Waco compound for TIME by Shelly Katz -- Black Star; David Koresh from Nine Network Australia
Those who dealt most closely with him doubted it. "He had been elevated way above his capability or accepted role in that compound," says Byron Sage, the main FBI negotiator. Before Feb. 28, the second in command was Perry Jones, the father and the grandfather of several other Koreshians. "Perry was killed, and all of a sudden you had the messiah and a quantum leap down to the next viable person, who was Schneider. He was not highly respected. Plus, after giving up his worldly possessions and his wife to David, it's a difficult thing convincing yourself that...