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Article: Taking Waco On Its Own Terms; For the Hearings, Some Useful Words on the Lexicon
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- The Washington Post
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- July 20, 1995
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It might help, if you're trying to follow the Waco hearings, to
have a Bible in one hand and a standard chemical reference manual in
the other. The witnesses have their own insider's language, acronyms
and key references that might befuddle novices. Why is methylene
chloride important? What is the Guitar nebula? Here's a Waco primer:
The April 14th Letter. Also called "the surrender letter." David
Koresh hand-wrote this missive to his attorney, spelling out his
intention to leave Mount Carmel after finishing his interpretation of
the Book of Revelation's mysterious "Seven Seals." "I hope to finish
this as soon as possible and to stand before man to answer any and
all questions regarding my ...