April 29, 1995

The investigation of the Oklahoma bombing has focused on Kingman, Ariz., where Timothy J. McVeigh spent much of the last two years and where Federal agents are searching for possible additional suspects. Article, page 11.

Throughout El Salvador's 12-year civil war, they were the bitterest of enemies: right-wing death squads who slaughtered thousands of suspected sympathizers of the leftist Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, and guerrillas who retaliated by executing mayors and other government officials. Today, though, the Front has the second-largest delegation in the Legislative Assembly, and its deputies occupy offices on the third floor of the national congress building. The offices of Arena -- the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance -- are just one floor above them, and legislators from the two groups now greet each other affably in hallways.

New Link in Japan Attack Japan's army acknowledged that two of its sergeants were secret members of the sect suspected in the Tokyo subway gas attack. Page 3. G.O.P. Effort Pays Off A decade-long effort by Republicans to create a network of small campaign donors paid off in the 1994 Congressional elections. Page 8. 2 Arts

A week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation found Timothy J. McVeigh, a drifting Army veteran, sitting in a county jail in Perry, Okla., the list of questions about him and the Oklahoma City bombing continues to grow. Who is the second suspect, a mysterious tattooed man known only as John Doe No. 2, a sketch of whom has spawned thousands of telephone calls to the F.B.I. without yielding a solid clue so far? Who else may have helped to carry out the attack? What were the plans behind it? Where did Mr. McVeigh spend recent months? When was the bomb built? What was the specific target of the blast?

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's plan to cut welfare benefits, combined with similar proposals in Albany, could prompt many welfare recipients to move out of New York State, the Mayor said yesterday. If welfare recipients were able to break free from their dependency on government benefits, enabling them to move freely around the country, the Mayor said, "that would be a good thing" for them. He did not directly answer a question of whether the city would be better off if many welfare recipients left town.