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t|P to sti'5 ers ii sten i n g t o the radio while others
toe Nortin iad the Bible as tanks smashed the walls
f their home and fired tear gas inside.
But within hours, he was crawling
rough smoke and flames as the walls
rumbled around him. Thibodeau and
ght other Branch Davidians survived,
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but religious leader David Koresh and
8 followers died a year ago Tuesday in
fiery mass death.
"It was terrifying, 1 thought I was
Joing to die any minute,” Thibodeau
he feels© | a id Sunday as he stood near the ruins
ifter eadiklif Mt. Carmel, the Davidians’ rural
omplex near Waco. Thibodeau and two
by on Siiti >ther survivors returned to the site Sun-
how clear k)' ; t b ree °f l ^ ie survivors remain in jail
^ ind the two others did return Sunday.
A vicious gunfight with federal
,. _igents and an ensuing siege grabbed the
omet ™f;(i vor l c r s attention last year, but the most
y makes;
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horrifying image is the deadly fire on
April 19, 1993.
After waiting in vain for a surrender,
FBI agents tried to force an end to the
5 1 -day standoff by assaulting the com
pound with tear gas.
Inside, Thibodeau said everyone just
donned their gas masks and waited for
the attack to stop.
“Everyone was so composed. They
were reading the Bible,” Thibodeau said.
Outside, there was an air of anticipa
tion among those who had felt sus
pended in time for weeks.
If the FBI’s plan worked, the Davidians
would be driven from their fortress and
the world would at last meet Koresh, the
elusive rock-n-roll religious zealot who
preached of the coming Apocalypse.
Instead, it was more like Armaged
don as an inferno erupted and con
sumed the sprawling compound in a
matter of minutes.
Shortly before the fire, Thibodeau
said, he had lost hope for a peaceful end
when he heard FBI officials say the Da
vidians were shooting at the tanks.
Thibodeau said he didn’t hear any
gunfire, and he believes the FBI lied to
justify its actions. It is just one instance
where the Davidians’ version totally
contradicts the government’s account.
“I could see the writing on the wall.
I knew they were setting America up for
a disaster,” he said.
As smoke filled the compound, Thi
bodeau said, he ripped off his gas mask
and ran to a stairway. But the tanks had
smashed some of the surrounding
walls, blocking the passageway.
In his frantic search for another exit,
he opened a door and “a wall of flames
came down the hallway.”
Fie got out through a hole in a burn
ing wall. Clive Doyle followed him,
smothering a fire on his own arm as he
escaped.
‘‘People just couldn’t get out. ... I
didn’t even think Clive would make it
out behind me,” Thibodeau said.
Several of the other survivors jumped
from the roof while others made their
own way out.
Doyle returned to the site Sunday for
the first time since the fire. FFe said he
was appalled by the damage to the com
pound, which now is just piles of dirt
and debris.
“There’s still a lot of emotion ... I
keep it bottled up inside,” Doyle said.
Federal Reserve increases
rates for third time this year
The* Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve
nudged interest rates up for the third time
this year on Monday and for the third time
financial markets showed their displeasure.
Long-term interest rates surged to their
highest levels of the Clinton presidency while
stock prices fell The Dow Jones industrial av
erage lost 41.05 points, to 3620.42.
All the commotion was caused by another
small, quarter-point increase in the federal
funds rate. The Fed signaled it had pushed
tliis key short-term rate to 3.75 percent. Ana
lysts predicted diis would send a variety of
consumer and business rates up as well.
Many economists had expected the Fed
would wait until May 17, the next sched
uled meeting of the Federal Open Market
Committee, the group that sets interest
rate policies.
Fed officials said that Federal Reserve
Chairman Alan Greenspan decided to act
after consulting other members of the
committee by telephone Monday morning.
As widi the moves on Feb. 4 and March
22, the decision was announced immedi
ately in a statement from Greenspan, who
said the change should result in a “small
increase in short-term money rates.” The
central bank has been under pressure from
Congress to be more open in its conduct of
monetary policy.
While the Clinton administration has re
fused to criticize die central bank, many De
mocrats in Congress have complained that
Greenspan is overly concerned about infla
tion at a time when there are no signs that
price pressures are getting out of control.
Laura Tyson, chairman of the president’s
Council of Economic Advisers, insisted that
while economic growth has been stronger
than expected so far this year, inflation has
remained docile.
“We believe that the prospects for sus
tained economic growth with low inflation
remain better than they have been for a
very long time.” she said.
She conceded that the Fed’s rate in
creases are running ahead of the forecast
the administration used in making its
budget estimates.
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