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Just as the new year was about to begin, just when Americans were hurrying home to celebrate, the searing instant of destruction occurred, with no warning and no explanation. It turned New York City's La Guardia Airport into a bloody ruin, killed eleven people and injured 51 others. Appalled by the act, President Gerald Ford ordered an immediate study by federal officials to try to prevent such tragedies from happening again (see box). There was immediate speculation that some terrorist group must be involved, and that what has come to seem a worldwide epidemic of political terrorism...
Children's Toys. At 6:30 p.m. on Monday, the baggage area at La Guardia shared by Trans World Airlines and Delta Airlines was bustling with excitement. It was one of the busiest periods of the day-four TWA planes had landed within the past 50 minutes-and the lounge was crowded with passengers...
...crowd getting ready to leave La Guardia included Ronald Presslaff, 33, who was on his way home to Long Beach, N.Y., after having attended a Christmas family reunion in Indianapolis, and Donald Kochersperger, 57, a mining engineer returning to Greenwich, Conn., after a short business trip to Milwaukee. A limousine driver named Frank Musicaro, 48, was placing a call on his tie line to Dispatcher Jeanne McDonald. "I got my Wantagh passenger," he said. "Where do you want me to go next?" She was about to answer when there was a brilliant white Light and a deafening thunderclap...
Just a few hours after the La Guardia bombing, President Ford ordered federal action to make certain that such a tragedy does not happen again. Specifically, he assigned a task force, headed by Transportation Secretary William Coleman, to draw up recommendations for tightening airport security. Coleman hoped to have them on Ford's desk within two weeks. It would be no easy task, though, to determine whether any of the 1.1 million passengers who enter the nation's 425 main airports each day was carrying a bomb. "A bag is a bag," confessed one perplexed FBI official...
...Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There the body was transferred from a horse-drawn gun carriage to a hearse for the 29-mile drive north along the Coruña highway to the Valley of the Fallen...