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...something; no need for an independent prosecutor) but raised the heat on a hitherto minor player in the fund-raising scandal: MICHAEL BROWN, son of the late Commerce Secretary. The Lums admitted conspiring to funnel about $50,000 in contributions through "straw donors" to SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY and an Oklahoma House candidate in 1994 and 1995, and they agreed to cooperate with investigators, who have recently been focusing on Brown, a donor to Kennedy around the same time. Brown was given $500,000 worth of stock in the couple's Dynamic Energy Resources Inc., a separate $160,000 payment...
DENVER: As deliberations in the Oklahoma City bombing trial continue, TIME's Patrick Cole reports that prosecutors are supremely confident that jurors will rule against Timothy McVeigh while the defense is hoping that a strong closing argument will bring reasonable doubt. It's about all McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones has left. After more than two years of preparation, spending between three and ten million dollars on the case, Jones presented only 25 witnesses in three days of testimony. The suddenness of the defense argument, contrasted with a sharp and thorough prosecution that crisply made its points with more than...
Fortier's testimony provided details about McVeigh's preparations that had never been heard before. He said, for example, that when he and McVeigh traveled to Oklahoma City from Arizona in December 1994 to case the Murrah building, McVeigh saw a Ryder truck on the road, pointed at it and said it was the kind of truck he wanted to use in the bombing. Fortier also said that McVeigh considered a suicide mission, driving the truck into the building and remaining at the wheel when it exploded. Then came the strangest moment of the trial, when Fortier remarked...
...What's the objection?" Matsch growled, when prosecutor Joseph Hartzler raised one amid the Oklahoma-bombing proceedings. At mid-sentence, Matsch cut him off: "There is no basis in that! Overruled!" Hartzler offered no challenge. Says Bob Miller, a Denver lawyer: "He doesn't allow the government to wear the white hat." While Matsch has allowed McVeigh's defense a number of procedural victories, the judge remains tough with Jones and his associates. During jury selection, he berated a defense lawyer, calling his questioning "incomprehensible." The judge, who lost a daughter in a freak accident in 1992, has not gone...
...While no zoo admits to choosing its new guests because of a movie, several will have suspiciously Lion King-appropriate exhibitions open this summer, notably Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Fla., which has an "Edge of Africa" safari based on the Serengeti, where the movie was set; and the Oklahoma City Zoo, which houses both meerkats and lions in its "Lion Overlook." At the San Diego Wild Animal Park's new "Heart of Africa" exhibit, guests can participate in field experiments and get up close and personal with some animals. Hurry! Disney's next hit may be Hercules...