ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, March 17, 1997 TAG: 9703170130
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
McVeigh reportedly confessed
NEW YORK - Timothy McVeigh admitted his involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing during a lie detector test given by his lawyers, Newsweek reports in this week's edition.
But McVeigh failed a question about whether all his co-conspirators are known to investigators, and that may suggest that others were involved in the bombing plot, the magazine said.
The report of the test is attributed to anonymous sources close to the investigation.
``McVeigh confirmed his role in blowing up the Murrah building,'' the magazine said. ``There is even fresh confusion about whether the FBI has tracked down all the members of the conspiracy.''
It said some federal investigators think the lie detector story may be just a ploy by McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones, to sow confusion.
The defense did not respond to the report of a lie detector test.
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L.A. gang suspected in killing of rappers
NEW YORK - The Crips, a violent street gang with roots in Los Angeles, is under investigation in the deaths of rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., Time magazine reported.
Police in Las Vegas believe a member of the Crips was responsible for the Sept. 7 drive-by shooting of Shakur, 25, near the Las Vegas Strip, Time said in its March 24 edition, due out this week.
Crips hired as bodyguards are under investigation in the March 9 drive-by killing in Los Angeles of The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, Time said, citing unidentified sources.
Wallace, 24, was affiliated with New York-based Bad Boy Entertainment, which hired Crips bodyguards on his Los Angeles visit; Shakur recorded on Los Angeles-based Death Row Records, which reportedly has ties to the Bloods, bitter Crips foes.
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Researchers dispute faith in air bags for youngsters
BOSTON - While passenger-side air bags have killed at least 38 children, a majority of Americans believe that the safety devices help more children than they hurt, a new survey shows.
Nearly 60 percent of adults polled by the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health mistakenly believe that air bags are saving more children's lives than not, the researchers say. There are no documented cases of a child being saved by an air bag, said John Graham, director of the center and the study's lead author.
``The public has a perhaps excessively optimistic and favorable view of what air bags are doing for them,'' Graham said.
Of the 38 children killed to date by air bags, all were sitting in the front passenger seat, he said. Some states are considering legislation requiring children to sit in the back, which is safer.
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