Militant leader advises Freeman to give up

JORDAN, Mont. (AP) - The Freemen holed up on an isolated farm where they claim to have their own legal system should surrender and face an established court, a leader of another militant group said yesterday.

Others urged that outsiders stay away and not get involved in the stand-off between federal authorities and the Freemen, barricaded on a wheat farm on the snow-covered prairie of east-central Montana.

More than 100 FBI agents have been keeping watch on the Freemen's compound, 30 miles outside Jordan, since two leaders of the group were arrested on March 25.

A third member of the group surrendered Saturday.

Worshipers take palm fronds to blast site

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Hundreds of worshipers whose churches were damaged in the federal building bombing carried palm fronds to a makeshift chapel near the blast site for a Palm Sunday service.

The April 19 bombing damaged several churches in the blocks surrounding the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the Christian Holy Week and commemorates the story of Jesus Christ's entrance into Jerusalem.