Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ATLANTA: Richard Jewell, the security guard under investigation for the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park, has passed a lie detector test but remains under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have...
...comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions at a time when even he admits most voters don't know a thing about him. And on Thursday he has to give...
...often greeted. The ability of witnesses to sympathize is something so nobly human, so inherently decent and moral, that it inspires and uplifts. A woman described her feelings as "very sad. Sad for the people, for the families." In the wake of the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings, it seems that terrorism's vulture has found new carrion. It is a mark of the times in which we live that one's initial reaction is "terrorist bomb." As long as nations worldwide continue to pursue democracy--for all its failings--as the morally correct way to live, however...
...this was a bomb, we should stand up to the terrorists, not give in to panic. If paranoia wins, the bombers win: they rob us of our peace of mind and our tradition of freedom; we accept a bunker culture in which liberty loses to suffocating security measures. We dishonor the memory of our dead by giving in to hysterical fear. And we betray our children, who look to us for strength. We take pride in singing about the home of the brave; now is the time to show that this is. PATRICK GRANT New York City...
...Olympics this year were a study in perseverance, from the thousands who breathed new life into a haunted party to the athletes who stayed focused amid bomb threats in a city that had waited forever to show off the New South (a phrase coined in 1886). As the Centennial Games came to an end, it seemed as if a slim hope had gone 15 rounds with hard reality and emerged bloodied but just ahead on points. Atlanta had faced its share of biblical afflictions--rain and thunder, explosions far and near, a plague of journalists and the smell of lucre...