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...Connerly, the President's speech couldn't have been better timed. Connerly is on the cusp of being a national figure. Californians speculate about his political ambitions (he claims to have none), and the Wall Street Journal calls him one of the G.O.P.'s "two most prominent black conservatives." (Oklahoma Representative J.C. Watts is the other.) He's learning how hard it is to take an issue nationwide. The civil rights leaders, newspaper columnists and editorial cartoonists who scorned him last year--lumping him together with former Klansman David Duke, calling him an "Uncle Tom," a "lawn jockey," a "front...
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...
That's what happened to Lee Hicks, Paris High School should've-been class of '93. Had he lived 14 miles away in Oklahoma, which has no statewide exit test, he'd have received a diploma and would now be serving his country in the Navy. Instead Hicks serves customers in a Paris supermarket; he won management's Aggressive Hospitality Award for 1996. "He's a great employee, a bright young man--extremely hardworking," says store director Larry Legg. "He has the capability to go as far as he wants." But how far can one go without a high school...
DRESSED TO KILL Government Exhibit 429: the T shirt Timothy McVeigh wore on the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. The back reveals a tree with droplets of blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil...
DENVER: Legal analysts and other court watchers following the Oklahoma City bombing trial often criticized Timothy McVeigh's lead attorney, Stephen Jones, for his staged media leaks and risky arguments. Now, it seems even McVeigh has turned on his lawyer: Legal sources tell CNN that McVeigh is considering using "quality of attorneys" as one avenue for his appeal, despite the fact that his defense cost taxpayers $10 million. If that doesn?t float, other issues under consideration as grounds for appeal include Judge Richard Matsch's ban on the defense theory that foreign terrorists were at the heart...