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NEWS
Thursday, July 6,20(
mrsday.July 6,2000
THE BATTALION
Double dutch
Ankur Bahl (I to r), Damon Lemmons and Laura Mercer, members of the U.S. Amateur Jump
Rope Team, showed their moves at the Huntsville Fourth of July Patriotic Freedom Parade on
Tuesday. The team is comprised of people from all over America. The team performs in competi
tions, workshops and shows across the nation.
Testimony
given in
Waco trial
WACO (AP) — Federal agents leame;
how to treat chest wounds and otherfc
aid techniques during training for the 1
raid on the Branch Davidian complex,
federal agent acknowledged Wednesday,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
Firearms agent Gerald Petrilli testifiedth
he and other agents expected only to
into fistfights with sect members on Feb'
1993, when they planned to search
building for illegal weapons and arrests®
leader David Koresh.
Instead, the raid led to a gun
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started a 51-day standoff that ended Ap; P en 1 u su 1 111
19, 1993, when the cult's compounds: oersuoun m 1 u ll
Waco burned down, killing about 80s«
members.
Petrilli was testifying for the govemme!
which is defending itself against a wrongfi
death lawsuit filed by Branch Davidiansi
vivors and relatives seeking $675 million
Under cross-examination, Petrilli*
knowledged that prior to the raid, sou
agents were taught by personnel atFo: ctstoosst he natior
Judge wants ships uncovered
Hood, a nearby Army post, how to
Mystery of Civil War buried 40 feet underground
minister field intravenous lines and tre
shock and gunfire wounds. He said
blood type was stenciled on his neckac
leg before the raid.
Robert White, a former ATF agent,
MONTGOMERY, La. (AP) —
The judge's town car tears along the
dirt road, bumping to a halt in the
middle of a muddy field. Pine trees
nustle in the bluffs. A snowy egret
glides along a pond.
The judge's mind is racing back
i36 years, to a time when the crack
le of musket-fire flew across the
ijieadow and the smell of gunpow
der filled the air. A time when the
ponderous Red River meandered
through this spot, and gunboats
struggled to navigate its shallow
waters.
Two of the ships are still here —
buried 40 feet beneath Mike
Wahlder's boots.
"I just want the whiskey and the
guns," booms Wahlder, a blustery
65-year-old Social Security judge
who lives on a plantation, owns
thousands of acres in the area and
calls the Civil War wrecks the pride
of his "backyard."
Wahlder's eyes twinkle. The
truth is no one knows if any
whiskey or guns exist, and if they
do, it is not clear who would get
them: Wahlder ,who owns the land,
or the U.S. government, which
claims the ships.
Over the years; the river changed
course around the wrecks and it
now flows 150 feet to the west. The
boats were covered by sediment,
and eventually, by woodland.
The judge would like to dig
them up.
Wahlder has no personal ties to
these ships. He jokes that his fami
ly's only connection to the Civil
War is the fact that some of his an-
History is
romantic.
And I am
romantic.
— Mike Wahlder
Social Security judge
cestors were Confederate deserters.
He loves the smell of history as
much as the smell of a challenge.
And he is not a man to turn his back
on either.
This is a man who, at age 21,
spotted a beautiful woman in a
travel brochure, tracked her to Is
rael and married her.
’ A man who challenged David
Duke for the U.S. Senate in 1990,
knowing he did not have a hope,
but determined to air his opinions
regardless.
A man who feeds $100 bills into
the riverboat casino slot-machines
in Vicksburg, and sometimes walks
away with thousands.
Wahlder's parties at his antique-
filled mansion in the woods are leg
endary. His holdings are too. They
include a riverside bluff where a
mythical Indian princess named
Creola was courted by her soldier
lover (Wahlder is so enamored by the
tale, he is incorporating a town in her
name), a plot where archaeologists
dug up a 45 million year old di
nosaur fossil, and a portion of a
buried 16th century Spanish mission.
"I like dabbling in history,"
Wahlder says. "History is romantic.
And I'm a romantic."
He is also a pragmatic business
man who knows that history can be
lucrative, whether it is buying sites
that can later be sold to the govern
ment, or getting a tax break for pro
tecting history on his land.
testified last week that writing anagen! mgs like drugs anc
blood type on his body was not standi
procedure and was recommended by'
military.
The ATF brought tents, medical ass
tance, portable toilets and water to take® ans). People with k
rangers while atten
le portable toilets. /
lols will shout exph
it on them after ste
irlfriends. All this ft
summer tours
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idustry, the corpora
nand sucked it dry
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Then someone re
nown in the enterta
nd the listeners (als
xchange music files
md listen to them at
But Big Brother, a
found out, and recor
of Davidians who were to be taken into®
tody, Petrilli said, but never had a chaw
use those supplies.
"We never made it to the frontdoor
the structure," he testified. As witiWAmericandream of
agents started approaching the bufeA commercialism and
said, "the entire front of the com]
erupted in gunfire."
Earlier Wednesday, Jacob Mabb,ah
year-old who left the compound
get real jobs instead
CDs teenagers buy t
decide to affiliate th<
So instead of beii
evening of the raid, recalled helping^ nane vocals, the sui
ammunition into gun magazines during
raid. He also remembered seeing boxes!
magazines and ammunition stored»
concrete vault in the structure.
News in Brief
Law signed requiring dorm sprinklers
tically charged eve
In the first corner
Idest, band going r
lembers angry abo
reasing, they depl
tricted trading of
forced to accept
le modestly more
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ. (AP) —
Gov. Christie Whitman on Wednes
day went to the site of a deadly col
lege fire to sign a law requiring au
tomatic sprinklers in all dormitories.
Three Seton Hall University
freshmen were killed and 58 stu
dents injured in a blaze at a dormi
tory Jan. 19. Experts said auto
matic sprinklers could have
extinguished the fire quickly.
Every school must have ;
klers installed within four yeafs
Schools can apply for no-interesto 1
low-interest loans.
The law applies to private art
public schools as well as fraterti!
and sorority houses.
Seton Hall plans to have;
klers available by fall. Thecaus!
of the fire remains under invest
gation.
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