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Page 10 The Battalion Tuesday, April 6,195! Waco authorities hope for end to standoff during Passover THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WACO — Federal agents will likely try to negotiate with Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh through the group's highest holy day, authorities said Monday. FBI agent Dick Swensen also said ne gotiators expect the five-week-old crisis to end after Passover, but they are still uncertain about when the group's cele bration begins and how long it lasts. The Jewish observance of Passover be gan Monday night. "It's going to end. After Passover can be an indefinite period of time," Swensen said. "I don't have any faith whatsoever in any specific time frame that David has laid out to anybody." Houston attorney Jack Zimmermann, who represents Koresh's top lieutenant Steve Schneider, on Sunday suggested that the cult be left alone during the holi day. "We would hope that the FBI would honor the fact that they honor this as a high holy day celebration and not engage in any additional negotiations," Zimmer mann said. But Swensen said the group's holy days haven't "had that much effect" on talks. . "If he wants it to have an effect, it does," Swensen said, referring to Koresh. "If it doesn't, it doesn't." Zimmer mann and attorney Dick DeGuerin, who represents Koresh, have expressed optimism that the siege will end peaceful ly after Passover. Swensen confirmed reports that cult members were on the verge of surrender ing last Thursday, when the attorneys spent eight hours with the group. Zimmermann told The New York Times he thought the siege was over until "After Passover can be an indefinite period of time. I don't have any faith whatsoever on any time frame that David has laid out to anybody." -Dick Swensen, FBI agent said. Amen was the 36th person, including 21 children, to leave the cult. Another man who got around authon ties and entered the cult, Louis Alanizd Houston, remained inside. The standoff began after gun 1 the cultists said they wanted to talk about the timing more. Separately, a religious fanatic who scampered past law officers and entered the compound on March 26 was being held in the McLennan County Jail with out bail Monday on a charge of interfer ing with the —— ——; m 7~ duty of a po- 'We would hope that: the FBI would honor the 1C Swensen ^ act they honor this as a high holy day cele said the bration and not engage in any additional nego man, identi- tiations. -Jack Zimmermann, Houston attorn^ fied as Jesse Amen of California, provided "zero" information about his 10 days with cultists. "Mr. Amen made no sense about anything we discussed," the agent when the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacct and Firearms tried to serve search andai rest warrants on the group Feb. 28. Adoption Continued from Page 3 Not many officials wanted to have anything to do with it." From then on, the Lazas have handled all the legalities and paperwork having to do with Lucian's adoption. They have worked, without pay, every day for nearly a year to ward its finalization. It was the Lazas who made it possible for the couple to finally gain entrance to a chil dren's home that summer in Orastie, Roma nia. There they met Lucian for the first time. The institution's director, whom Richard described as a "chain-smoking Mother Tere sa," brought the boy out, and the Shafers were hooked. Jill had wanted to adopt an infant before meeting Lucian, she said, but the two bonded immediately. "As soon as I met him," she said, "the age didn't matter anymore." The couple always knew they wanted to adopt a child from another country, she said. International travel is important to both of them, and they like the idea of the world be ing "one whole." They never really consid ered a U.S. adoption, she said, and both be lieve in adopting a child bom into economic and political problems. The couple would like to have children of their own, she said, and they may also look into adopting another Romanian child. Negotiations for this adoption, though, could not all be made in Romania. When the first trip was over, the Shafers came back to the United States with much to do. A Ameri can adoption agency had to be contacted and a series of tests were adminstered. In the fall of 1992, Andrea Szilagyi, a senior journalism major from Cluj-Napoca, Roma nia, became the Shafers' link to the Lazas in Romania. Richard called upon Szilagyi, one of his journalism students, to communicate between the two parties by making phone calls, trans lating letters and even taking money to Lu cian on Szilagyi's first trip back since immi grating to the U.S. eight years ago. Calin Laza is fluent in English, but Nicolet- ta, the attorney who handles most of the pa perwork, speaks very little English. Her work with the Romanian agencies has been con ducted in Romanian, and Szilagyi has been able to translate the documents for the Shafers. "It's easier this way to get things across," Szilagyi said. "The details about the adoption are already a pretty difficult process, and on the phone it's so difficult to hear anyway." Richard always typed a list of things for her to tell the Lazas, she said, and there was always a lot of suspense. "I got excited or I got down with them," she said. "They were worried at one point about some other people getting the child." But a letter from Lucian, sent back with Szilagyi and addressed to "Mom and Dad," reassured them that he would be coming to the United States. The couple's most recent trip to Romania, over spring break, was a time of tying up loose ends and sealing their bond with Lu cian. They celebrated his ninth birthday with a party on a Romanian farm. If nothing else comes up, Jill said, the cou ple hopes to have Lucian permanently in May. "To have a mom and dad is such a big deal," said Szilagyi. "He knows he's going to come and he's anxious to have a family." Depeche Mode Continued from Page 3 give a song a certain commercial jingle effect. Lyrics are just as impct tint as the vocal aspects of a song: 'judas" shows some originalityfc cause it does not rely on repetition of one word or phrase as the othe songs on the album do. And what is it about Depeche Mode's songs that they seem to be tribute to the late Dr. Seuss's rhyming style? Take for example tl lyrics of "Mercy in You:" "You know what I need; When mv heai bleeds; I suffer from greed; A longing to feed..." And you tnoug! AAA A rhyme scheme masters only existed in the rap spectrum of me sic. The most bothersome thing about "Songs of Faith and Devotion"i by this stage a lot of other bands have sung about the ills of society m have done a better job than this album does. When "Black Celebration" and "People Are People" were release: the 80's rebellious club music was in its prime. In the midsto Reaganomics and the "Me Generation" Depeche Mode's style am songs were new and innovative. It is sort of like when your relative tell stories about the stupid scraps you got into as a kid. You still lovf the stories, but you are just sick of hearing them in the sameolf drawn-out manner. Since the 50's, generations have been characterized by the great rod and roll musicians of their time. We've got the Elvis impersonators the Beatles maniacs, the Dead Heads, so on and so forth. 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