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Friday, September 15, 1995
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Judge orders bombing trial moved
The Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The judge in the Oklahoma City bombing case rejected a request yesterday from both the defense and the prosecution that he step aside. But he ordered the trial moved to Lawton, 90 miles away.
Both sides had wanted U.S. District Judge Wayne Alley to remove himself in favor of a judge who was farther from the April 19 blast, which ripped apart the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and damaged Alley's chambers across the street.
"The allegations of bias and the appearance of lack of impartiality presented by the defendants are lacking." Alley said.
"Preparing for and trying this case will be a difficult task in the coming months, and I cannot merely ask another judge to shoulder the burden when the law does not require that."
Alley set the trial of Timothy McVeigh and James Nichols for May 17 in Lawton, a military town of
about 80,000 people near the Texas state line.
"The United States courthouse in Oklahoma City is too close to the bombing target, the Murrah building. Jury selection from a pool in the Oklahoma City area would be chancy," he said.
Attorneys for McVeigh and Nichols had argued that Alley was too affected by the bombing to remain impartial. Prosecutors disagreed but asked the judge to step aside anyway to avoid repeated court battles over the issue.
Mexico City quake causes no deaths
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake shook the center of Mexico City yesterday morning, sending people running out of homes and children scrambling from classrooms.
Residents said buildings swayed when the quake struck shortly after 8 a.m. (10 a.m. EDT), but no damage or injuries were reported immediately. The quake lasted about one minute.
The quake bad a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, said Stuard Koyanagi of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Boulder, Colo.
The epicenter was 190 miles southeast of Mexico City and 90 miles east of the resort city of Acapulco.
The quake struck almost 10 years to the day after one that killed more than 6,000 people on Sept. 19, 1985. That quake had a magnitude of 8.1.
Traffic stopped when the quake began, and thousands of people fed buildings. A local radio station was broadcasting a program about the
1985 quake when it was interrupted by a seismic wailing alarm, a brief warning before a quake hits the capital.
Lucia Parada, an office worker at the National Ecological Institute, said she was heading to work when telephone lines began to sway.
"This was really frightening, but only half of what it was in 1985 when I saw an entire building fall to the ground," she said.
An 7-magnitude earthquake is capable of heavy damage when centered in a heavily populated area.
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