From: mst4298@rigel.tamu.edu (Mitchell S Todd)
Subject: Re: WACO burning
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garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod) writes...

>It is interesting, sometimes, to listen to U.S. news as seen through
>the eyes of another country.......

>B.B.C. world news service, on short-wave, originating out of London,
>reports that a survivor of the Waco massacre states that a tank, when
>making a hole in the wall of the building, knocked over a kerosene
>lamp and that is how the fire started.  Attempts were made by the
>people inside to put out the fire, but it spread too quickly.

>Has anyone in U.S. heard anything similar or are U.S. government
>spin-doctors censoring such information?

	It was on CBS yesterday. The explanation is reasonable enough.
	Then again, if the fire was accidental, why didn't more
	people get out?

>The B.B.C. news is also reporting that about 20 of those that died
>were british citizens.

	That's true. I think there were several Australians in the 
	group as well.

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