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It began in the predawn darkness of Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September scaled the wire fence surrounding the Olympic Village and burst into the apartments housing the Israeli contingent--fatally shooting two athletes before taking hostage nine more. Much of the excruciating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FIRE LAST TIME | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

But the medium of the media is a global saturation and does not grant moral exemptions. The Atlanta bomb has now caused the electronic atmosphere to buzz in the mind in an unpleasant way. The gaudily hyped Olympics were suddenly overcome by their media countershadow--so that the brightness now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE DARKNESS | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

But television could go where the wreckage was, and one could peer into the obscure video to find the pieces that were eventually going to become a comprehensible story. Boats maneuvered in the darkness. Nets dipped into the black water. Flares dropped by C-130s hung in the sky like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: DEATH ON A SUMMER'S NIGHT | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Minutes after the blast, the streets were filled with stunned people walking aimlessly up the hill in the dark towards Peachtree Street, while helicopters circled overhead, shining blinding searchlights on the city. Some of those walking away from Centennial Park were bleeding from minor shrapnel wounds. As traffic came to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'It's Not Safe Downtown' | 7/27/1996 | See Source »

This spirit of accommodation has extended to his new partner. In recent months, Erbakan initiated corruption investigations against Ciller. Now he may backpedal on those probes, and presumably Ciller will no longer describe an alliance with Erbakan's Welfare Party (Refah) as "plunging the country into darkness." There is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECULAR STATE SUSPENDED? | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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