LAWYERS MUST DEFEND MCVEIGH

A federal magistrate in Oklahoma City this afternoon ordered two lawyers assigned tobombing suspect Timothy McVeighto defend him, despite their arguments that loss of their friends in last week's blast rendered them unable to do so. At McVeigh's first court appearance, the magistrate, Ron Howland, also turned down a request to move McVeigh's trial out of Oklahoma City. FBI agents said at the preliminary hearing that McVeigh's clothing tested positive forexplosives residue, that one witness saw McVeigh driving the rented truck the day before the bombing, and that three other witnesses thought they saw McVeigh outside the devastated building shortly before the explosion, though none could pick him out conclusively from a lineup. McVeigh, who so far has told federal investigators nothing except his name, rank and serial number, followed the proceedings at the preliminary hearing intently.