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DATE=3/29/99 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-247380 TITLE=OKLAHOMA BOMBING CHARGES (L-O) BYLINE=MICHAEL LELAND DATELINE=CHICAGO CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: ONE OF THE TWO MEN CONVICTED OF FEDERAL CHARGES IN THE BOMBING ATTACK AGAINST THE OKLAHOMA CITY FEDERAL BUILDING HAS BEEN CHARGED IN STATE COURT. TERRY NICHOLS FACES 160 CHARGES OF MURDER FOR HIS ROLE IN THE DEADLIEST TERRORIST INCIDENT COMMITTED ON U-S SOIL. MORE FROM V-O-A'S MICHAEL LELAND. TEXT: TERRY NICHOLS IS ALREADY SERVING A LIFE PRISON SENTENCE FOR HIS ROLE IN THE DEATHS OF EIGHT FEDERAL AGENTS IN THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. NOW HE IS BEING CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER BY OKLAHOMA CITY PROSECUTOR BOB MACY FOR THE OTHER 160 DEATHS. IF HE IS CONVICTED, NICHOLS COULD RECEIVE THE DEATH PENALTY. NICHOLS WAS CONVICTED OF THE FEDERAL CHARGES IN DECEMBER, 1997. THE JURY FOUND HIM GUILTY OF CONSPIRING WITH TIMOTHY MCVEIGH TO BLOW UP THE BUILDING, AND OF EIGHT COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER. PROSECUTORS HAD ACCUSED NICHOLS OF HELPING MCVEIGH DELIVER A GETAWAY CAR TO OKLAHOMA CITY THREE DAYS BEFORE THE BOMBING, AND OF HELPING MCVEIGH PACK THE BOMB INSIDE A TRUCK ON THE DAY BEFORE. MCVEIGH RECEIVED A DEATH SENTENCE IN HIS 1997 FEDERAL TRIAL. OKLAHOMA CITY PROSECUTOR MACY SAYS HE ALSO PLANS TO FILE STATE CHARGES AGAINST MCVEIGH, BUT WANTS TO SEE HOW HE FARES IN HIS APPEAL OF THE FEDERAL CONVICTION FIRST. HE SAYS NICHOLS TRIAL IS NOT LIKELY TO GET UNDERWAY FOR AT LEAST A YEAR. THE APRIL, 1995 ATTACK AGAINST THE OKLAHOMA CITY FEDERAL BUILDING LEFT 168 PEOPLE DEAD AND MORE THAN 500 INJURED. PROSECUTORS SAY THE BOMBING WAS A PLOT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ITS SIEGE OF THE BRANCH DAVIDIAN RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION COMPLEX IN WACO, TEXAS IN 1993. ABOUT 90 PEOPLE DIED IN A FIRE THAT SWEPT THROUGH THE COMPLEX ON THE 51ST DAY OF A STANDOFF WITH FEDERAL AGENTS. (SIGNED) NEB/MJL/JO 29-Mar-99 5:46 PM EST (2246 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .