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...student from Tulsa, Oklahoma asked whetherthe U.S. can do anything differently to protectfederal buildings in the wake of the bombing ofthe Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building...
...United States government, and not Japanese cultists, who murdered commuters in a Tokyo subway. And it was the Japanese government, of course, and not militia crazies, who blew up the Oklahoma City Federal Building in retaliation...
...Unabomber gave a one-word response to questions about his motive. "The answer is simple: anger." He also chided the FBI for being "surprisingly incompetent" and denied that an April mail bomb, which killed a lobbyist for California's timber industry, had been triggered by the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. "We strongly deplore the kind of indiscriminate slaughter that occurred in the Oklahoma City event," read Unabomber's letter to the Times-blithely sidestepping the fact that last week's threat to blow up a passenger plane is perhaps the ultimate indiscrimination...
Lawyers for bombing suspectTimothy McVeighclaim that FBI agents have been trying to keep witnesses from talking to them about the case. Attorney Richard Burr has filed a motion in the U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City laying out the allegations. Burr also contends agents convinced at least one witness that his earlier statements were wrong. If the court finds evidence of wrongdoing, McVeigh's lawyers will ask that the indictment against him be dismissed. A lawyer for Terry Nichols, the other suspect in the bombing, filed a similar motion last week, only to have it rejected for lack of evidence...
...Born in Oklahoma to an acting family, Howard made his stage debut at age 2 in a production of The Seven Year Itch directed by his father. Even during his days as TV's freckle-faced icon of small-town Americana, he was starting to learn the filmmaking craft. While in his teens, he won second prize in a Kodak-sponsored movie contest and briefly attended film school at the University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want...