NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Wednesday, April 30, 1997 7A Prosecutors display vehicle part Evidence links Ryder truck to crime scene The Associated Press DENVER — Prosecutors undraped their largest and most important piece of evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing trial on yesterday: a mangled, 250-pound axle they say links Timothy McVeigh to the bomb-carrying truck. The 7-foot-tall mass of jagged and twisted black metal, draped in a black cloth, was wheeled in front of the jury box on a red hand cart and then uncovered. The explosion threw it 575 feet from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, FBI agent James Elliott testified. A vehicle identification number was stamped into the metal of the axle, which was found the day of the bombing. Timothy McVeigh The truck's ignition key and its blackened, damaged rear license plate, issued in Florida, also were discovered in the wreckage strewn across downtown Oklahoma City, Elliott said. Ryder truck executive Clark Anderson said that, on an FBI request, hours after the attack, the axle number was traced by computer to a 20-foot Ryder truck that had been rented on April 17, 1995 two days before the bombing — from Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kan. The customer gave the name Bob Kling, which prosecutors say is an alias used by McVeigh. Prosecutors said they would call the body shop's owner to identify McVeigh as the man who rented the truck. Body shop employees provided the sketch later used to identify McVeigh. Prosecutors allege that McVeigh packed the truck with barrels of fertilizer and fuel oil and drove it to the federal building, where it exploded in a thunderous blast that killed 168 people and injured hundreds. The 29-year-old Gulf War veteran could get the death penalty if convicted of murder and conspiracy in the deadliest act of terror on U.S. soil. Looking at still photographs from a security camera, Anderson said that a vehicle parked outside the building on April 19, 1995, at 8:56 a.m. — six minutes before the bombing — was a 20-foot Ryder truck. Those stills were not shown to the jury, and another witness is to be called to authenticate the photos. Prosecutors contend that McVeigh bombed the federal building out of general hatred for the U.S. government and to avenge the government's deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. Louis Hupp, an FBI fingerprint specialist, testified earlier yesterday that anti-government writings were found in McVeigh's car after the bombing. He said the documents included a scathing attack on the government for the FBI's Waco raid exactly two years before the Oklahoma City attack. The documents were in a thick, sealed envelope in McVeigh's 1977 Mercury Marquis. Rations dwindling fast in North Korea The Associated Press BELJING — Food warehouses in North Korea are nearly empty and officials are adding ground-up wood to rations of rice and corn to make supplies last longer, a foreign aid worker reported yesterday. Kathi Zellweger, who just returned from the communist state, said she saw hungry children too weak to stand, hospitals that could not feed patients and other signs that North Korea's food crisis was heading toward a disaster if no one took action. "We will have a full-blown famine with mass starvation, and possibly also refugees heading toward China and South Korea," Zellwenger said. It was her 10th visit to North Korea, and she said the situation had deteriorated each time. One kindergarten teacher south of the capital, Pyongyang, told her that five children had died of malnutrition this year. The North Korean Health Ministry said that 134 children died of malnutrition in 1996. Earlier this month, the World Food Program requested $95.5 million in donations to fight food shortages that began with North Korea's disastrous flooding in the last two years. It has received only one-third of that total. Zaire rebel leader not compromising The Associated Press LUBUMBASHI, Zaire — Rebel leader Laurent Kabila and President Mobutu Sese Seko agree they will meet face to face, but the rebels said yesterday that there was only one thing to discuss: Mobutu's departure from power. U. S. envoy Bill Richardson was in Lubumbashi Friday night to talk with Kabila. Earlier, the blunt-talking ambassador to the United Nations pressed Mobutu to accept that he could not stop the rebels and urged him to agree to immediate peace talks. "President Mobutu and rebel leader Kabila must meet face-to-face without delay." "There can be no military solution to this crisis," Richardson said in the capital Kinsha, where he met the president. 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