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AG LAUNCH is a subscriber to the most current apartment locating databases r 'ailable to apartment loc'' ors in each of the respective Cities. Page* • The Battalion DIAL B FOR BOMBER Phene records link McVeigh to explosives suppliers DALLAL([AP) — In the months leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing, suspect Timothy Myeigh made more than two dozen telephne calls to suppliers of bomb •nents, W components, "he Dallas Morning News re ported today. Citing recoi! s from prepaid phone calling cards, the news a per said 22 of the calls were made during a \ree-day period of September 1994 to compares including racing fuel sup pliers, chemical ckitributors and one of the na tion’s largest expbives manufacturers. That wave of ells came just days before McVeigh and supect Terry Nichols al legedly began bulng tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, tb same component used in the April 19, 195, bombing that killed 168 people. Records show the <dls to bomb-component companies continued in October 1994 from Kingman, Ariz., about the same time that the suspects allegedly drove there to hide stolen explosives, the newspaper said. Three of the Arizona calls were made from the home of Michael Fortier, whom McVeigh often visited. Fortier, a former Army buddy of McVeigh’s, has pleaded guilty to knowing about the bomb plot and doing nothing to stop it. He plans to testify for the government. While Nichols’ lawyer has said his client split with McVeigh in February 1995, gov ernment sources told the newspaper that the phone records will be used in court to show that the suspects stayed in close touch in the days before the explosion. The records show that as McVeigh trav eled around the country he exchanged sever al calls with Nichols, right up until the day Houstoi blacks urged to boycott white businesses Organizers of the Coalition for a Black Agenda issued the call for a boycot lasting Fridays through May 17 HOUSTON (AP) — Black-esidents of Houston are being asked o spend money only at black-owned biunesses on the next three Fridays. A recently formed organ^ation known as the Coalition for aBlack Agenda held a news confeence Wednesday to issue the call for lacks to patronize only black business^ on Friday, May 10 and May 17. Organizers estimated there^re 10,000 wholly black-owned business in Houston. The Rev. William A. Lawson, pas>r of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Churc; said the rights of blacks have steadik. deteriorated since the election o. Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. He listed minority grievances that included the ouster of black judges from office here during the 1994 Re publican election sweep, the recent halt of some affirmative action policies and efforts around the country to redraw congressional districts where blacks hold office. “The ‘angry white male’ has protest ed that minorities and women have taken from him the power and control that is rightfully his, and we have watched a systematic dismantling of our human rights,” Lawson said. A list of people and organizations backing the coalition includes two city council members, a state representa tive and a state senator, two chambers of commerce, the president of Texas Southern University, the NAACP and many community associations. That will lead up to a major town hall meeting on May 18 at a site to be determined, Lawson said Wednesday. May 18 is the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessy vs. Ferguson decision that held “separate but equal” public facilities for whites and blacks were compatible with the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. That decision, sanctioning a form racial segregation that lasted for dcades, has since faded into history, bit not the memories of many black Americans. Health department probes ‘date rape’ pill AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Department of Health wants to know more about the “date-rape” pill. David Collins, chairman of the department’s regula-l tory committee, said Thursday that the department has received numerous complaints about misuse of the drug Rohypnol, manufactured by Roche HLR Services. The committee will hold a hearing to discuss the drug on May 15. Roche sells the tranquilizer in Mexico, South Ameri ca, Europe and Asia as a sleeping aid. Misuse of the drug ... has included date rape and ritual use on college campuses. 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Among the calls McVeigh made, the newspaper said, was an April 14, 1995, call from a Junction City, Kan., bus station to a Ryder agency there that rented the truck used in the blast. Lawyers on both sides declined to com ment on the phone records. The bombing indictment alleges both de fendants used the card “as a means of con cealing their true identities and as a means of preventing calls from being traced.” But within days of the bombing, Joel Soto, a marketing representative for a com pany formerly known as WCT Communica tions, which issued the card, said FBI agents came to the company’s Santa Barbara, Calif., headquarters and obtained toll records for the 684 calls made on the card. I ftfti 6X1 is El