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Meanwhile, the Morning News declared it was standing by its story. The paper's account is almost novelistic in detail. The bomb, McVeigh allegedly said, was built with 5,400 lbs. of ammonium nitrate fertilizer--600 lbs. more than the government estimate--mixed with high-grade racing fuel. Total cost: $540 for the fertilizer, $3,000 for the fuel. The summer before the bombing, McVeigh was noted as saying he had an affair with the wife of Terry Nichols, the former Army buddy who would become his accused co-conspirator. The paper did not indicate whether Nichols found out. Still...
That strange and sometimes brilliant testament aside, Sam Tanenhaus has now written the best biography that Chambers is likely to receive, Whittaker Chambers (Random House; 638 pages; $35). Tanenhaus' account, essentially sympathetic, is patient, admirably balanced and fascinating in its rich detail. On the great litmus question of postwar politics--which of them was telling the truth?--Tanenhaus is clear. Walking again through all the familiar elements of the case (the Woodstock typewriter, the Bokhara rug, the prothonotary warbler, the famous Pumpkin Papers), Tanenhaus shows, if anyone still doubts it, that Alger Hiss was lying...
...continue to protect vigilantly the culture of PBHA as it has developed over the past 100 years. We urge the College administration to meet the new and capable leadership of PBHA in an honest, principled, and frank fashion. Public service cannot endure yet another year of haggling over administrative detail. Let us hope that the frustration of this past year can be channeled into positive growth...
...member of the proletariat, he learned something else: communism, the doctrine spreading among French industrial laborers and the Chinese students among them. In 1922 Deng joined the Communist Youth League set up by his expatriate countrymen. With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog...
...Nichols guilty. In one revelation, McVeigh contradicted a witness claim that she knew the identity of the person who drove the rental truck. "Mr. McVeigh . . . insisted that he was the one who drove the Ryder truck," a defense interviewer wrote. McVeigh also described to interviewers in stark detail the make up of the bomb that blasted the Oklahoma federal building. According to the documents, he said the device was made with 5,400 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, six hundred pounds more than the government's estimate, and that it was mixed with $3000 worth of racing fuel to produce...