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...Death in Oklahoma City...
...most deadly terrorist bombing in American history. A massive truck bomb went off in front of a nine-story federal office building in Oklahoma City and left at least 78 people dead-13 of them children in a day-care center-and an additional 400 injured. By week's end, some 100 were still missing. The force of the explosion was so great that the building's fa?ade was blown off, raining debris on workers and causing such extensive structural damage that rescue efforts were severely hampered...
...killers quickly focused on two white Americans accused of having rented the truck used to hold the explosives. On Friday one suspect was taken into federal custody: Timothy McVeigh, who had been picked up by a highway patrolman two days earlier on a traffic violation north of Oklahoma City. Two associates of McVeigh's were also taken into custody as potential witnesses. A possible motive: McVeigh was said to be obsessed with the Federal Government's 1993 assault on Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas. At week's end, as the fbi detained another suspect in San Bernardino, California, officials continued...
BILL CLINTON MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY LAST WEEK, AND GOOD FOR HIM. ON Friday, after the arrest of one suspect in the Oklahoma City horror, the President was asked if the "constant drumbeat in recent years that government is bad, that government is the enemy" may have contributed to the tragedy. For a President who has been attacked personally and mercilessly by his opponents, it must have been tempting to denounce those who use character assassination as a political tool. Instead he patiently and properly refused to speculate "about the motives or atmosphere until the investigation is complete...
Last month the National Rifle Association ran full-page ads denouncing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for a "tyrannical record of misconduct and abuse of power.'' Assuming those responsible for Oklahoma City have ties to the gun-toting "citizen militias" whose leaders advocate armed conflict against governmental "intrusion,'' shouldn't the N.R.A. reconsider at least the tone of such heated calls to arms...