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...with Clinton in the White House Cabinet Room for a supposedly decisive session Wednesday suspected the President had already made up his mind to sign the welfare-reform bill Congress was about to pass. A tip-off: Hillary Rodham Clinton was conveniently out of town at the Olympics in Atlanta and, White House watchers believe, already knew what her husband would do. If the First Lady had been in any real doubt about what her husband would do, Clinton watchers reasoned, Williams would have sat in to listen and report. Also, though no other participants knew it, senior policy adviser...
Richard Jewell had run to the limelight, and now he was frying in it. After a bomb exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, killing one woman, injuring 111 and blowing a hole in the middle of the Olympic festivities, Jewell, a park security guard, had spoken with the press about his fortunate discovery of a bag containing the three-pipe device. He hadn't said he was a hero, but others were happy to, and for a while he achieved almost gold-medalist status as an instant inspiration...
...security professional, the latest news that security guard Richard Jewell is the prime suspect in the bombing of the Olympics breaks my heart. I lived in Atlanta and Savannah for more than 10 years, prior to moving here...
...plan could have called for him to phone it in to 911, and wait for that dispatcher to pass it onto the Atlanta Police Department, and they would pass it on to Olympic security who would put out an advisory to all security via the radio. Unfortunately...that call never came. By blind bad fortune, if this plan is correct, this one time glitch happened when the call was not passed on as he calculated...
...explosion of TWA's Flight 800, coupled with the bomb that ripped through Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, have led to the stark realization that unless Americans are willing to sacrifice a great deal of the liberties they currently take for granted, the United States will always be extremely vulnerable to acts of terror...