Word: blasted
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...federal magistrate in Oklahoma City this afternoon ordered two lawyers assigned tobombing suspect Timothy McVeighto defend him, despite their arguments that loss of their friends in last week's blast rendered them unable to do so. At McVeigh's first court appearance, the magistrate, Ron Howland, also turned down a request to move McVeigh's trial out of Oklahoma City. FBI agents said at the preliminary hearing that McVeigh's clothing tested positive forexplosives residue, that one witness saw McVeigh driving the rented truck the day before the bombing, and that three other witnesses thought they saw McVeigh outside...
...Oklahoma City bombing. In a hearing today Terry Nichols testified that McVeigh spoke to him three days before the April 19 bombing and asked to be picked up in Oklahoma City. The FBI confiscated 33 firearms and a 60mm anti-tank rocket from Nichols' home, as well as some blasting mechanisms. Federal workers across the country joined people inOklahoma Cityfor a moment of silence at 9:02 CDT, the time the bomb went off exactly a week before. In Washington, President Clinton attended the funeral of a former member of his Secret Service detail killed in the blast. This afternoon...
...least two men associated with Timothy McVeigh, the suspect identified Friday. In Oklahoma City, court-appointed attorneys for McVeigh filed papers asking to withdraw from the case. (One of them, John Coyle, said his family had received threats and belatedly offered that he had friends hurt in the blast.) The Pentagon, meanwhile, reported that McVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols -- a"Militia of Michigan"member now being held as a material witness -- entered the Army on the same day in 1988 and went on to serve in the same infantry unit at Fort Riley, Kan. At the Alfred P. Murrah Building...
Robert A. Waldo '98, who is from Oklahoma City, said when he heard about the bombing, he was immediately worried about his father who works two blocks from the federal building that was destroyed by the blast...
When the time came for blast-off, there was no big clock ticking off a countdown--just a deep voice that suddenly said, "Zazhiganiye [ignition]." As the white Soyuz rocket soared up over the brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence...