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Senators at a packed Capitol Hill hearing embracedPresident Clinton's new plan to combat terrorism, but several urged a "go-slow" approach toavoid trampling on civil liberties. "I don't want us to panic," said Joseph Biden (D-Del.). Even Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), thepresident's leading rival for 1996, straddled the fence: "America will not be paralyzed into inaction by those who have committed this evil deed," Dole said, referring to theOklahoma City bombing. But he also said there was "no big rush here" to pass legislation...
...that he blamed the FBI and the ATF for killing theBranch Davidians in Waco." None of the charges bear directly on Wednesday's bombing. After police released a revised sketch of the second suspect, known as "John Doe 2," the manager of the Great Western Motel in Junction City, Kan., said today that the man had been there two days before the incident: "He spoke broken English. It was a foreign name. He said he was from Colorado. He drove a Ryder truck." Junction City is where the FBI has said the Ryder truck used in the bombing was rented...
...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,80 people were confirmed dead today, 13 of them children...
...bombing Wednesday, the FBI disclosed today, authorities arrested Timothy McVeigh -- the "crew cut" man in police sketches -- 60 miles north of Oklahoma City for speeding, and then held him for reasons not yet disclosed. This afternoon, the other man in the sketches, Terry Lynn Nichols, voluntarily surrendered in Herington, Kan.; police officials say he is cooperating in the investigation. The FBI searched the home of Nichols' brother, James Douglas Nichols, in rural Decker, Mich. The Nichols brothers and McVeigh are thought to be members of theMilitia of Michigan, a paramilitary groupthat held meetings in Junction City, Kan., the town where...
Meanwhile, the FBI is seeking two suspects in Michigan, brothers Terry Lynn Nichols and James Douglas Nichols. CNN reported they and McVeigh are thought to be members of the Michigan Militia, a paramilitary group that held meetings in Junction City, Kan., the town where the truck used in the bombing was rented. The FBI reportedly raided the town of Decker, Michigan in connection with the bombing this afternoon...