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About 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a frantic man flagged down a police car in Brooklyn, N.Y. Something terrible was about to happen, he tried to tell the cops, using broken English and sign language. At one point he flung his arms apart to indicate an explosion. When a translator arrived at the local precinct house, the man reported a plot by men he was living with to set off an explosion in New York City's subways that could have matched in carnage the blast that had just devastated Jerusalem's busiest market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBWAY SCARE: TERROR TAKES AIM AT NEW YORK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...tried to enter the U.S. illegally, he was detained until Feb. 6, when he posted a $5,000 bond. Some reports said Abu Mezer's alleged bombmaking was sped by news of the Hamas attack in Jerusalem. On Saturday, though, Hamas released a statement denying involvement in the Brooklyn plot. It declared, "Our battlefield is Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBWAY SCARE: TERROR TAKES AIM AT NEW YORK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...native of Bronx, N.Y., she graduated from Brooklyn College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Popular Kennedy School Asst. Dean Dies at 66 | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...wants to abolish the troubled agency, dividing its duties between the State and Justice departments. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani continues to escalate his feud with the INS over its release of a Palestinian asylum-seeker who last week was charged with plotting a terrorist bombing in Brooklyn. Police sources say evidence includes a note threatening a series of attacks on American and Jewish interests. Meanwhile, Congress is embracing the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform's proposal to abolish the INS, as state officials complain that the agency is unable to keep criminal aliens out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INS Under Attack from N.Y. to D.C. | 8/5/1997 | See Source »

...YORK: The trial of Ramzi Yousef is off to a slow start. After postponing opening statements until Tuesday after a juror called in sick, U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy dismissed another juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slow Opening to Yousef Trial | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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