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...which will resume tomorrow. McVeigh's lawyers hope to attack Lori Fortier's credibility, noting that in the first few days after the blast she denied that McVeigh and her husband had anything to do with the bombing. Both husband and wife changed their stories after agreeing to a plea bargain. Michael Fortier faces up to 23 years in prison for federal charges that include failure to notify authorities of the bombing plot. Jurors today also saw the mangled rear axle from the Ryder rental truck that carried the explosives. An identification number, found on the 250-pound axle...
Fortier, meanwhile, can expect that Jones will try to obliterate him on cross-examination. Jones has grounds to attack his credibility: Fortier has changed his story several times, and he is testifying for the prosecution as part of a plea-bargaining deal. As for The Turner Diaries, McVeigh's visit to Waco and other evidence about McVeigh's opinions, Jones will argue that none of it proves his client blew up the Murrah building...
...cuts needed to allow the country to join the European Union's single currency. More cuts are needed in light of a new Finance Ministry report that placed the 1997 budget deficit at 3.8 percent, short of the three percent needed to qualify for the euro. In a televised plea, Chirac, called on voters to reject increased taxes and public spending as the solution to rising unemployment. "If we want to affirm ourselves as a great economic and political power, equal to the dollar and the yen," the president said, "France must adopt the euro...
...year sentence for the shooting death of the civil rights leader. Seated in a wheelchair, Ray responded to King's comments in a reedy voice, rambling nearly incoherently at times. King told Ray that his family believes in the imprisoned man's innocence. Ray, who recanted an earlier plea of guilty, has never been tried for the 1968 assassination...
Northeast eventually made the fuel-pool cooling-system changes Galatis demanded, but the NRC rejected his plea for it to suspend the company's license, insisting that "the relative safety significance" of the fuel-pool issue "is low," a conclusion disputed by a host of industry-watchdog engineers. The "pervasive noncompliance" that Galatis uncovered, the agency admitted, did pose a potential threat to public safety. The NRC informed Galatis in December that its long-term shutdown of Millstone "constitutes a partial grant of the petitioner's requests." The agency is delaying a decision on enforcement actions until the U.S. Attorney...