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...Quid, No Quo: An embarrassed DNC is trying to return a $107,000 election donation from the Cheyenne-Arapa ho Tribe of Oklahoma, but the tribe doesn't want its money back. It wants the land it thought it was buying. The tribe wants to turn Oklahoma's Fort Reno, built in 1869, into a tourist attraction, and thought that was what it was getting when it cobbled the check out of funds targeted for food, medical care and other basic needs for the hard-pressed, 10,700-member community, which suffers from 80 percent unemployment. The DNC may duck...
...Ground who say they were pressured by military investigators to claim falsely that they were sexually abused by their superiors. "I agreed to tell them what they wanted to hear," said recruit Kathryn Leming, "in order that they leave me alone." Darla Hornberger, a 30-year-old private from Oklahoma, supported Leming's assertion, sayin g: "They put it down on paper. All I did was sign it. (They) had what they wanted in their heads and that's what they got on paper." Under Army regulations, it is illegal for Army personnel to have sexual relations with superiors. TIME...
...words were cold and willful. In July 1995, at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, Timothy McVeigh reportedly sat down with a member of his defense team and was asked, Why didn't you bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at night, when fewer people would be killed? The prisoner looked his interlocutor in the eye and said, "That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point...
Jury-pool contamination is the biggest problem created by the Morning News story. Says Gerald Shargel, a defense lawyer in New York City: "There's a potential for grave damage here. There's apparently no witness that puts McVeigh in Oklahoma City on the morning of the bombing." Says Peter Arenella, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles: "Just a report of this is extremely prejudicial to McVeigh's right to a fair trial. Even if the press reports all its caveats, the people still remember this news." When he spoke to TIME in March 1996, McVeigh...
...Tennis vs. Oklahoma St. (at Miami...