The Nation - News from Jan. 28, 1988

A leader of a polygamist clan locked in a 12-day-old standoff with police reconnected his telephone and asked to talk to a friend. Addam Swapp, who had not spoken to authorities since the day the standoff began following a church bombing, wanted to talk to Ogden Kraut, who visited the clan’s stronghold near Marion, Utah, twice this week, John T. Nielsen, state public safety director, said. He said Swapp hung up to wait for technicians to patch the call through to Kraut. Swapp reconnected the phone less than 24 hours after Kraut delivered a letter from Gov. Norman H. Bangerter to Swapp and Vickie Singer, urging them to give up or at least send out the nine children in the clan. Swapp and Singer face federal charges in the bombing and for shots fired from the compound.