MICHIGAN BROTHERS HELD FOR BOMB-MAKING

Terry and James Nichols, the Michigan brothers held as material witnesses in the Oklahoma bombing case, were charged with conspiring with suspect Timothy McVeigh to makeexplosive devices. McVeigh, a friend of Terry Nichols who had spent time at James Nichols' Decker, Mich., farmhouse, was named as co-conspirator. An FBI affidavit says James Nichols had "observed McVeigh and Terry Nichols making an exploding bottle bomb at his residence in 1992, using brake fluid, gasoline and diesel fuel." The affidavit also says Daniel Stomber, a nearby resident, heard James Nichols say that "judges and President Clinton should be killed, and that he blamed the FBI and the ATF for killing theBranch Davidians in Waco." None of the charges bear directly on Wednesday's bombing. After police released a revised sketch of the second suspect, known as "John Doe 2," the manager of the Great Western Motel in Junction City, Kan., said today that the man had been there two days before the incident: "He spoke broken English. It was a foreign name. He said he was from Colorado. He drove a Ryder truck." Junction City is where the FBI has said the Ryder truck used in the bombing was rented.