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...Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari to gain his government's approval of the operation. Islamabad's decision to let the U.S. in was politically risky; in 1995 Pakistani government officials, then led by Benazir Bhutto, suffered harsh criticism from local extremists for allowing the U.S. to extradite World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef. Now, however, "they recognize that it's in their own interest to be supportive on terrorism issues like this," says a senior Administration official. "Undoubtedly they are hoping for some improvement in bilateral relations as a result...
...glare. The federal prosecutor would allow no attempts at cordiality to mitigate her mission: to convict McVeigh and get him sentenced to death. Last week, after his defense had presented parental pleas for mercy, Wilkinson's words thundered through the courtroom, demanding the life of the convicted Oklahoma City bomber. "All of us can feel compassion for his parents, but they do not know the Timothy McVeigh who murdered innocent men, women and children. Timothy McVeigh is no longer the sweet kid they want to remember... While Timothy McVeigh has had the benefit of his parents asking for his life...
...write phrases like "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky..." But what I really coveted was the athletes Rice covered in the 1920s and '30s, the so-called Golden Age of Sports: Ty Cobb, Jim Thorpe, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, Red Grange, the Brown Bomber, the Four Horsemen and the Four Musketeers...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: By a 98 to 0 vote, the Senate passed legislation banning those found guilty of federal capital offenses from being buried in national cemeteries or receiving other veterans' benefits. The bill was rushed to a vote yesterday after someone pointed out that convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was eligible to be buried in a national cemetery, since he served during the Gulf War. Under current law, only those convicted of treason, espionage or sedition can have their benefits stripped. The Senate bill would add murder to that list, and a companion bill is being readied...
...knife and earplugs when he was arrested. The case was not airtight--no one testified to seeing McVeigh make the bomb or seeing him at the crime scene--but the government made a very powerful presentation. To counter it, Jones had three strategies: raise the specter of a "real" bomber, or bombers, who had not been caught, attack the credibility of the Fortiers and challenge the forensics evidence...