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That rendition of motive, reported Friday by the Dallas Morning News, sent chills through survivors and the kin of the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, blast. The words, purportedly gleaned from defense interviews with McVeigh between July and December 1995, also sent McVeigh's lead attorney, Stephen Jones, into damage control in Denver, Colorado, where jury selection is set to begin on March 31. For 30 minutes he complained about the Morning News story in the court of U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch, and then launched into a diatribe against the paper in a press conference. Jones...
...explosion, similarities with the earlier incidents were striking. When police arrived at the Otherside Lounge on Friday night, they discovered a second bomb in the parking lot. That was the same m.o. as in the abortion-clinic attack, when a second explosion injured rescue workers responding to the first blast, apparently by design. This time police were able to detonate the second bomb harmlessly. The bomb that did go off inside the club had been stuffed with nails to serve as shrapnel, as was the Centennial Park weapon. And the bomb found last week in the lounge's parking...
...Latin America's largest integrated steel company, it's not the blast furnaces that are shooting off the biggest sparks these days. It's Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, 40, an economist and financial wizard hired in May to restructure Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, formerly an icon of Brazilian state-driven industrialization and, since 1993, Brazil's largest privately owned firm. She has more than her share of work ahead at CSN, where she is leading what she calls an "internal revolution" that is likely to set standards for other Brazilian industries as well...
...weekend of potentially devastating stories about his client, Timothy McVeigh, attorney Stephen Jones came out swinging against the Dallas Morning News on Monday. He accused the paper of stealing defense notes from his computer and using them in reporting that the Oklahoma City bombing defendant had confessed to the blast. Jones asked for a federal investigation into the issue, and also said he plans to file a complaint asking the Texas Supreme Court to determine whether reporter Pete Slover, who is also a lawyer, should be disbarred. Jones also is considering seeking a 90-day ?cooling off? delay...
Henry Higdon continued the Crimson scoring barrage less than three minutes into the second period, increasing the buffer zone between the Crimson and the Big Green to three goals. The junior forward let loose a blast from just inside the blue line to beat the Dartmouth netminder...