Word: nitroglycerin
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...expert, Linda Jones, to confirm the lab's findings. The only witness the government would call from the lab itself is Steven Burmeister. He is treated neutrally in the part of the report that deals with the Oklahoma City bomb and is praised in other sections. He found the nitroglycerin and petn on McVeigh's clothes, and he can testify that they were never in the two sections of the lab where contamination was found. Whitehurst, meanwhile, is harshly criticized in the report. Yet even if the prosecution is right on the merits in this dispute, the lab's shortcomings...
...truck, the prosecution will seek to reinforce its case by establishing that McVeigh was also in possession of a bomb. The most direct way to do that will be to call an FBI expert who will testify that McVeigh's clothing, tested after his arrest, showed traces of nitroglycerin and pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or petn, an explosive used in detonator cord. Prosecutors will also present evidence to show how, in the months before the bomb exploded, McVeigh set out to gather materials...
...receipt for ammonium nitrate fertilizer had been found at Nichols' house. In fact, while the evidence is consistent with an ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb, it does not exclude other possibilities. The report also leaves open the question of whether McVeigh's clothing might have been contaminated with nitroglycerin and petn in the lab. Jones will hammer away on these points. He will call Frederic Whitehurst, the whistle blower who brought about the lab investigation, and Jones will also try to have the report itself admitted into evidence...
...Philippines to Japan. He carried with him the components for a bomb, unassembled in his carry-on bag. The X-ray operators never detected the components. On board the plane, Yousef allegedly went to the lavatory and assembled the bomb, which was made up of gun cotton, a nitroglycerin solution, an explosive detonator and a timer all packed into a contact-lens bottle. He then went back to his seat and tucked the bomb under the cushion. He left the plane after its first stop in the central Philippine city of Cebu with the device still under the seat...
...general has become the nitroglycerin of the 1996 presidential contest. Virtually no one wants to jostle him out of fear that his popularity--and any slighting of his person--could prove explosive. Powell's admirers say his appeal revolves around leadership rather than litmus tests, and polls support that idea. A TIME/CNN survey, taken after Powell proclaimed his moderate-to-liberal social views, indicated that if Powell were to run as an independent, he would win 33% of the vote, against President Clinton's 30% and Senator Bob Dole...