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Twenty people are confirmed dead and 300 of the 550 people in the building remain unaccounted for after a car bomb blew a nine-story hole in the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City this morning. At least 17 of the dead are infants and children killed in a day care center on the premises. Federal officials believe the explosives were packed in a car parked nearby. They said the bomb was as strong as that used in theWorld Trade Center attacktwo years ago. The FBI established a command post in Oklahoma City, and President Clinton...
...several reasons. Among them: few, if any, U.S. groups have the skills used in this bombing, and the car bomb is a signature weapon of several Islamic groups, but no known American ones. In addition, perhaps coincidentally, there was a major national conference of a large Muslim group in Oklahoma City last weekend. The group, the Islamic Society of North America, is normally considered moderate, but Barnes says it has promoted a number of radicals to leadership roles in recent months. Experts interviewed by TIME today also said that Oklahoma City was not necessarily a surprising spot for a terrorist...
Hours before the Oklahoma City bombing dwarfed partisan politics, President Clinton launched an attack on the GOP, insisting he would not be "blackmailed" by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's threat to attach GOP bills to budgetary measures that Clinton would have difficulty vetoing. "A strategy to sort of put me in a box would be an error because I will still exercise the power of the presidency in the interest of the American people," Clinton said at an Oval Office photo-op, reprising his Wednesday press conference theme that the president is "relevant." If Gingrich tied controversial "Contract With America...
Stephen A. Krohn Tulsa, Oklahoma...
...Massachusetts state SANE program is being modeled after a similar SANE program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Tulsa program won the 1994 Innovations in State and Local Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government...