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03/10/93
Cryptic sign at compound asks for help; FBI negotiators unable to explain members' plea
By David McLemore / The Dallas Morning News
WACO-After nine days of staring through heat waves dancing up from the fields surrounding the Branch Davidian compound, reporters couldn't believe their eyes Tuesday.
Shortly after 4 p.m., a banner approximately 4 by 8 feet fluttered out of the compound watchtower. It was the first sign of life in the compound since the bloody shootout with federal agents Feb. 28.
Photographers and TV camera crews rushed to get film of the action, while reporters with powerful binoculars passed word to others gathered nearby that written in simple block letters was: "God help us. We want the press.'
About 2 _ hours after it went up, the sign was taken down.
No one, including FBI officials at the negotiating headquarters
near the compound, could explain what it meant. Earlier in the day, an even more cryptic message was displayed from the same window when a single white sheet was hung out into the wind, and after about 45 minutes it disappeared as quickly as it appeared.
Dallas radio station KGBS (1190 AM) told listeners that it had asked cult leader David Koresh on the air to display a white banner if he wished to communicate with them.
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