Word: michigan
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Terry and James Nichols, the Michigan brothers held as material witnesses in the Oklahoma bombing case, were charged with conspiring with suspect Timothy McVeigh to makeexplosive devices. McVeigh, a friend of Terry Nichols who had spent time at James Nichols' Decker, Mich., farmhouse, was named as co-conspirator. An FBI affidavit says James Nichols had "observed McVeigh and Terry Nichols making an exploding bottle bomb at his residence in 1992, using brake fluid, gasoline and diesel fuel." The affidavit also says Daniel Stomber, a nearby resident, heard James Nichols say that "judges and President Clinton should be killed, and that...
...AUDITORIUM AT THE CHRYSLER technology center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, was dense with emotion three years ago when Lee Iacocca attended the company's annual meeting for the last time as chairman of the board. A few months earlier he had agreed to step aside in favor of Robert Eaton, a former General Motors executive who was Iacocca's own choice to succeed him. Now here he was at 67, having brought the giant carmaker back from the edge of bankruptcy twice in 10 years, summing up a fabled career. Though he had lived every boy's dream of becoming...
...suffer as they did in the last recession. And a seasoned asset stripper like Kerkorian might not hesitate to sell off some of the company's high-performance divisions, like Jeep. "I think it's a $100-per-share stock," says David Cole, head of the University of Michigan's auto-industry think tank...
...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,80 people were confirmed dead today, 13 of them children...
...Supreme Court refused Dr. Jack Kevorkian's last-ditch plea to avoid prosecution forassisting two suicides and three attempted suicidesby terminally-ill patients. The Justices, without comment, rejected the retired Michigan pathologist's appeal of a Michigan Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution creates no right to assisted suicide.TIME law reporter Andrea Sachssays the doctor's setback will have minimal impact on the movement, which will continue to seek to expand legal rights in this area: "Dr. Kevorkian has ricocheted in and out of court so much that people now see him as a lone ranger." Kevorkian, who has aided...