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...fuel oil. (Commercial manufacturers use industrial-size blenders for the job.) Clumps of ammonium nitrate will fail to detonate--leaving investigators with good clues about the materials used to make the bomb. That is apparently what happened in California one morning in 1990, when a disgruntled engineer detonated a truck filled with 2,000 lbs. of his own batch of ANFO outside a branch office of the Internal Revenue Service. Fortunately, only a fraction of the compounds in the vehicle exploded, and no one was killed...
...everyone seems worried by these danger signs. Detroit's Big Three automakers plan few production cutbacks in the second quarter, even though U.S. car and light-truck sales slumped 4% through March compared with the same period a year ago. Downplaying the slow start, Chrysler chairman Robert Eaton says he still expects to sell 100,000 more vehicles in 1995 than the 2.2 million units his company sold last year. Notes David McCammon, vice president and treasurer of Ford, which has been adding shifts at its factories: "If we thought things were doing poorly, we would not be producing...
...that I realized the bombing would hurt different people in different ways." Correspondent Ed Barnes' hunch that the terrorists might this time prove to be American was cinched when he learned the birth date that was cited on the fake driver's license used to rent the bomber's truck: April 19. Barnes recognized the date as one that is near talismanic to the survivalist fringe he had observed while reporting on the Michigan Militia, a group we wrote about in our Dec. 19 issue last year. In fact, the subjects of the FBI's investigation turned out to have...
...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...
Although some initial reports suggested that the bombing might have been the work of Middle Eastern terrorists, the hunt for the 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...