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Show Al4 UTAH/NATION Sunday, March3 1996 TheSalt Lake Tribune Siege Hits Home for Utahn: aq s MyDaughter in There’ Weaver Offers Feds a Hand is not Armageddon,” said. In Ending Freemen Siege for Weaver contacted bureau of- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the possibility of Weaver inter- gum came looking for hislittle girl justto see if he could help. tion of the standoff. Weaver made the offer because he wanted to The Salt Lake City truck driver the source FBI sources said an attorney ficials late last week and raised vening to seek a peaceful resoluTHE WASHINGTONPC gan scaling backits operation at TheFBI is csige whether the farm, which at its height con. to accept an offer from Randy sisted of about 100people, includ killed four years ago in a bloody cials on Saturday declined to Weaver, the man whose wife they ing agents and support staff. Offi standoff near RubyRidge, Idaho. to mediate an endto the nearly quantify the reduction but took great pains to defuse a situation theysaid is fueled largely by intense media interest. Scores of reporters have descended on tiny week-old siege with anti-govern- ment Freemenholed up on a re- mote ranchin Jordan, Mont., offi cials said Saturday The deliberation over Weaver, who became a cause célébre for right-wing anti-government groups, represents an extraordinary turnabout for federal au- Jordan. Agents are not traipsing about in military-style garb with highpowered weaponry, as was the case near Waco where more than avoid the samekind of bloodshed thatleft his wife and son dead, his friends said Saturday. On Aug. 21, 1992, Weaver's son Samuel was killed in a firefight with U.S. Marshals that also left U.S. Marshal William Degan dead. A daylater, an FBI sniper killed Randy Weaver's wife, Vicki, as she stood holding her 10month-old daughterat the door of the family’s cabin. his ex-wife and her 10-year-old JORDAN, Mont. — Steve Man- knows 8-year-old Jaylynn Joy is among a band of militant antigovernment Freemen holed up on a farm near here. The FBI told him that “It’s my daughter in there,” Mangumtold the Billings Gazette on Friday after driving all night fromUtah. ‘I love her. I'm probably just a fly on the wall, but you don't know until you come in daughter from another marriage have been with the Freemen for at least six weeks. They just said keep in touch, and thelast thing they wanted was a confrontation,” Mangum said. Mangum said he has not seen the children since October, more than six months after a custody dispute with his ex-wife began Jaylynn has not been in school since March 1995 and was con- fused about things she has been taught since then, he said She was taughtto hate blacks, taught to hate policemen, school wasevil,” he said. “It shocked me that they would teach her such things.” He said FBI agents had warned him not to try entering the Free- men farm. He said he will take their advice I'm not going to do anybody any good dead,” he said. there and try.” Mangum, 44 ae his Senet 80 followersof self-styled messi- thorities and indicates their sensi- ah David Koresh perished along with four Treasury agents in a months-long siege. And agents tivity to the failures of armed confrontations near Waco, Texas, have not established a perimeter around the farm. Instead, they and at Ruby Ridge. Bureauoffi- cials were also considering allow- areusing floating road blocks to ing family membersto enter the ranch and talk with the Freemen. determine who mightbe trying to enter or leave the ranch. have been fruitless. If the Freemenrefuse to surrender, senior Justice Depart ment officials said one optionis to Negotiators and behavioral-scice experts are being given the sameclout as tactical agents. Law enforcement officials are monitoring electronic and telephone Palks thus far with the group pack up and leave," as one of themput it. They would leavea transmissions on the farm butare 25 homes wanted with leaky, creaky, old aluminum patio door sliders for immediate replacement with THE PRADO Galvanized Steel Swinger Patio Door small number of federal agents to keeping their distance “There has to be a balancing act These 25 homes qualify for special installed package pricing and free in-home quotation. farmor wouldask local authorities to do so. 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Although there are allegations that the men have made threats a similar approachin an incident with an armed member of the Freemen last month in Louisiana. ‘The incident ended in the man’s surrender: against local officials, a Justice Department source noted Saturday that the outstanding federal charges involve “fraud,” essentially “white-collar crime.” “This In fact, the FBI on Saturdaybe- 90 DAYSse ss cast Offer Good Only Through PEACHTREE BUILDING SYSTEMS JEG ee 7220 South 900 East peers Cetsese UD DRAPERIES “Every Home Needs a Peachtree” PARTIC IPATE IN AN FINVESTIGATIONAL DRUG RESEARCH STUDY Participants receive up to $600 ASTHMA Children and adults using daily medication it si jt ASTHMA & ALLERGY Volunteers, 18-40 yrs., currently experiencing both allergy and asthma symptomsand areallergic to a dog orcat in your home. HAY FEVER Volunteers, 6 yrs. and older, experiencing hay fever symptoms. 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