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Ho. 43 Hi IMsmai i L-i ii IN OKLAHOMA CITY I lMd 1 Listing of recent developments In the Oklahoma City federal office bunding explosion Including: the buUding, the bomb, suspects and casualties. Page A2 President Clinton orders an exhaustive federal manhCint for those responsible for the bombing carnage in Oklahoma City and declares, "Justice will be swift, certain and severe." Page A3 Oklahoma City and all of U.S. ask, how could they bomb the children?" Page A4 A South Bend lawyer from Lakeville feels blast first hand while on business trip to Oklahoma City. Page A5 Federal workers around Michiana are at work today with Wednesdays blast on their minds.

Page A5 jr J' 1 i -A i- vv-h. -V. -r, i i i A i A 'V AP Photo WTT A A Hope dims as search continues for 200 Spring day shattered in Midwest Bv JULIA PRODIS Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY The day started like any other warm spring morning in downtown Oklahoma City people driving to at day care, pouring WUIO) UlVpMUlg UU lUUw MV UMj v. 'I tfc S- ating at an excruciatingly slow pace, picking brick by brick in hopes of finding survivors without loosing material that could further injure people inside or destroy evidence that could lead to the killers. At the same time, more than 150 FBI agents were helping police search for the suspected terrorists.

Early today, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said it found a Chevrolet Cavalier that may have been involved in the bombing, and that followup interviews were being conducted. The El Paso Times reported that Texas authorities had been searching for two men of Middle Eastern appearance, possibly wearing bloodied clothing, driving a Cavalier or Blazer toward the Mexico border. Police Sgt Kim Hughes said today that authorities believe the 200-pound bomb was carried in a National Car Rental minivan with Texas license plates. In the streets surrounding the building, police marked several tiny metal fragments by spray-painting yellow circles around them. Rescue workers were told See SEARCHPage A2 Bv OWEN CANFIELD Associated Pr Writer OKLAHOMA CITY With hopes dimming, rescuers armed with tiny cameras and listening devices searched for survivors today in the bloody rubble of a bombed federal building.

The FBI and police mounted a vast manhunt for the bombers. Two hundred people remained unaccounted for nearly 24 hours after a car bomb caused horrific destruction at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building. The confirmed death toll rose to 36, a fire official said. At least 12 of those were believed to be children.

Authorities said the total was sure to rise. Dr. David Tuggle, a pediatric surgeon at Childrens Hospital of Oklahoma, said this morning that he believed there was only a remote chance anyone else would be found alive in the building. At this point theyre not hearing anything, Mayor Ron Norick said of the searchers. However, he added, Theyre not giving up.

Hundreds of rescue workers were oper cups of coffee, sitting down at computer ter minals. In a moment, their routine was shattered and it became a day of blood and death and women crying for their babies, buried somewhere under the wreckage of a nine-story building. It was the kind of carnage seen in the Middle East, not the Midwest It was like Beirut Everything was burning and flattened, said Dr. Carl Spengler, one of the first on the scene. The blast shook the entire city and shattered windows and ripped awnings off office buildings five blocks away.

Billowing smoke darkened the sky as an inferno raged on the street and parked cars went up in flames. The force of the blast blew the edifice of See TERRORPage A2 7 tS A car bomb ripped nearly completely through the Alfred Murrah Federal Building In downtown Oklahoma City Wednesday morning. WSJV signs agreement to make switch to Fox by Oct. 18 1 a I At- niltM ntAl11 Ka fiklll IMVUfPQfri 111 cnpnfip time slots. would be able, tain in specific time slots.

programs Harper says the station received complaints about the loss of ABC network shows. But a Terre Haute cable company picked up an ABC station, making that programming available to cable subscribers. Chances are good that TCI of Michiana will be able to add ABC affiliate WLS-TV in Chicago to its lineup, says Rick Tuttle, general manager at TCL Its likely that TCI would drop WFLD, the Chicago Fox affiliate, to make room for that channel, he adds. While TCI of Greater Michigan carries WSJV on its channel lineups, the cable company also carries WLS-TV. example, he says the station to offer its late news in an earlier time slot at 10 p.m.

during the months when the other local newscasts air at 11. We see it as an opportunity to do some different things, Sargent adds. 1 While refusing to talk specifically about changes, he said no layoffs in the news department are planned. Fox affiliates have a chance to really program to the community, according to Bill Harper, general manager at WBAK in Haute. The station completed its switch from ABC to Fox in February.

Harper explains that a Fox affiliation is iiniilfB traditional network agreements, which obligate local stations to carry cer preference is a full-time affiliate. WSJV signed on the air as an NBC affiliate in 1953 and became an ABC affiliate about 18 months later. The station joins a list of affiliates that have switched to Fox from other networks within the past year, including WLOV in Tupelo, Miss, WBAK in Terre Haute and WSFX in Wilmington, N.C. Kevin Sargent, WSJV station manager, says the station was involved in negotiations with ABC when contacted by Fox about five weeks ago. The stations contract with ABC specifies a six months notice before withdrawal Sargent says the affiliation with Fox will provide greater freedom in scheduling.

For cal outlet in this market ABCs media relations department in New York had no comment on the matter on Wednesday. ABC contacted local independent station WHME-TV on Monday, according to Peter Sumrall WHME general manager. They asked whether we were interested in being an-ABC affiliate or would allow ourselves to be purchased by someone," Sumrall Sumrall told the network thpt WHME is not for sale. I told them we would be interested in carrying some of their programming but we categorically would not be the ABC affiliate. The network said that it would consider that offer, according to Sumrall.

But their Bv ALESIA I. REDDING Tribune Staff Writer i Local station WSJV-TV has signed an agreement with the Fox Broadcasting switching its affiliation from ABC to Fox. The station, owned by Quincy (HD Newspapers Inc, will begin broadcasting Foxs coverage of the National Football League in August and the networks entire programming lineup by Oct 18. Prior to the switch, this area was the largest market in the country without a Fox affiliate- Currently, Fox programming is available to those area viewers able to receive the broadcast signal from Foxs Chicago affiliate, WFLD. The move could leave ABC without a lo CL nnif -tt 4'mwi ni.rvir EZ I I.