Word: guards
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EAST MORCIHES, New York: Moving into its fourth week, the investigation of TWA Flight 800 is past the days of revelation and into the weeks and months of painstaking forensics. The Suffolk County medical examiner has closed the temporary morgue set up at a Coast Guard station immediately after the explosion; it has been two days since divers have recovered the bodies of any new victims, and searchers are no longer confident that they will find any more. The recovery of large pieces of the aircraft continues. Crews pulled a 75-foot section of the right wing from the ocean...
...divers and the crews of the flotilla of U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels patrolling the crash site--plus everyone else involved in the investigation--got a morale boost late last Wednesday night, almost exactly a week after TWA Flight 800 took its fiery plunge into the sea. Called away to the telephone just after finishing a chicken-piccata dinner at a Manhattan hotel, National Transportation Safety Board vice chairman Robert Francis returned a short while later with a brief smile and some promising news: the plane's two black boxes had been recovered...
...Vice President Al Gore personally reviewed all the security arrangements for Atlanta. Indeed, the bombing on Saturday occurred in the midst of what amounts to an armed camp--with 30,000 law-enforcement officers deployed to protect 10,000 athletes and 2 million fans. In addition, 11,000 National Guard and active-duty military personnel are on Olympics duty, including more than 500 Delta Force and SEAL-Team 6 commandos, airmen from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and specially trained U.S. Army Rangers to be part of a backup force in case local police...
About 45 minutes later, a security guard in Holyoke center picked up a bag he found unattended in Au Bon Pain...
...security guard picked up the bag and called the police. The bomb squad soon arrived to defuse the situation...