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...picked up throughout the nation. George McClintock, the station's general manager, said it was dropping Koernke's Intelligence Report because "we've got to get the gasoline off the fires." And the Michigan Militia ousted its leader, Norman Olson, for issuing an unauthorized press release pinning the Oklahoma bombing on "the Japanese." Their alleged motive: retaliation for the U.S. poison-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, which was itself part of America's subversive campaign against the overly strong...
Meanwhile, the Oklahoma senate voted 39 to 0 to ask broadcasters and sponsors of Liddy's show and "other broadcast talk shows that encourage hate and violence" to pull out their funding. Even before that, station KCKC-AM in San Bernardino, California, announced that it was canceling Liddy's show. (How many still carry it? At last count...
...postpone the vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban, which had been scheduled for next month. The official reason was to give priority to antiterrorism legislation requested by the White House. The real problem was the fear of voters' drawing a connection between the N.R.A. and the probable Oklahoma bombers, who may be affiliated with groups that ferociously oppose gun control...
...without disgrace be associated with it." Angry rhetoric is not new. But neither is America's balm for it. Thoreau would vanish into the woods of Walden to deal quietly with despair. And in the moments of silence Americans devote to contemplating the probable causes of the horrors of Oklahoma, another venerable piece of Thoreau's advice should resurface: "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." --Reported by Sam Allis/Boston and Nina Burleigh, James Carney and Douglas Waller/Washington
True, Timothy McVeigh didn't hold a steady job, but he never seemed to want for money. In the days leading to the Oklahoma bombing, he paid cash for his motel room in Junction City, Kansas; he paid cash for the Ryder truck that allegedly carried some 5,000 lbs. of explosives to Oklahoma; and he forked over $250 (and his old Pontiac) for the Mercury he was driving when he was arrested. In Kingman, Arizona, the owner of the trailer park where the suspect lived in 1993 says he saw McVeigh flashing around "a big wad of money." Investigators...