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...however, he is dedicated enough to his comrades and their cause to keep his mouth shut. Imprisoned at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, McVeigh, when questioned, responds only with his name, his rank and his date of birth-obeying, as it happens, the instructions for pows in a manual published by the Michigan Militia. Even when confronted last week with photographs of the children carried from the crumpled Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building -- some bloody and numb with shock, others already dead -- McVeigh appeared unshaken. The accused bomber seems to have decided that he is a prisoner...
Political support for intelligence work swings like a pendulum. This quickly changing congressional environment, while understandable in its own terms, is not helpful to a law-enforcement agency. The behavior of rank-and-file government workers cannot be fine-tuned like a clock or made precisely sensitive to changing legislative moods. The members of any organization take their cues from the general posture of their superiors and clients. When the posture is threatening, the reaction is predictable: Pull back...
...McVeigh driving the rented truck the day before the bombing, and that three other witnesses thought they saw McVeigh outside the devastated building shortly before the explosion, though none could pick him out conclusively from a lineup. McVeigh, who so far has told federal investigators nothing except his name, rank and serial number, followed the proceedings at the preliminary hearing intently...
...until yesterday, not enough to beat Harvard. Last year, for example, both teams were essentially tied for the No. 6 rank in the country and faced each other in Hanover for the last sport in the six-team NCAA Tournament...
...order to compensate for inequities in local property-tax revenues, the state has poured millions into the Hartford system, which now spends more per student--nearly $9,000--than almost any other district. The money, though, has not begun to make a difference; Hartford's student test scores consistently rank last in the state, and continue to fall. Says Hartford Mayor Michael Peters: "Does it make it a better education just because we get more money than somebody else? We have special needs in urban areas: bilingual education, special education. That's what drives the cost...