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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. It seems ms
likely that there will be a clan of 30- and 50-year-olds professing ai
undying love for Depeche Mode's music.
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