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But of course Bye Bye Birdie was the product of an era when America's way of dealing with teen-agers was to encase them in glass-lined steel canisters, truck them to Nevada, and bury them several miles underground in abandoned salt mines.
A former senior FBI official told reporters this week that tear gas canisters used on the Branch Davidians could have started the fire that destroyed the group's compound.
Both the NYT and LAT front a Waco revelation made yesterday by a California congressman: Information showing that the FBI used combustible tear gas canisters at Waco has been in the DOJ's possession "for years" and was even sent to Congress no later than 1995.
Instead, "America is now spending $7 billion a year defending itself against backpack nuclear bombs, canisters of nerve gas and petri dishes of germ weapons planted in crowded cities by an as-yet-unknown adversary."
The NYT cites law enforcement officials saying that the tape supports their account that the canisters bounced harmlessly off the bunker's roof and hence could not have started the subsequent lethal fire, and also points out that nobody in law enforcement, including Reno, has suggested that the tear-gas devices contributed to the fire.