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...bomb exploded in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park at 1:21 Saturday morning. His spirited announcement at 5:20 a.m. was an echo of the last time that violence devastated, but did not halt, the Olympic Games, when 11 members of the Israeli team were killed by Palestinians in Munich in 1972. But this determination not to let a terrorist act obliterate the Olympic spirit was also a stance against an unwanted future--against an awful time when terrorism might become woven into the fabric of American life. And the Games, as they go on, must do so under different...
Although it was almost unimaginable that Atlanta would turn out to be like London--or Munich, for that matter--authorities thought they had done all they could to ensure that these would be the safest Olympic games in history. Even before the explosion of TWA Flight 800, the White House was acutely aware that the Games were a big, inviting terrorist target, and 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...
...image is seared in our collective memory: an armed and hooded figure peering over a dormitory balcony in Munich, Germany, the setting for what remains the bloodiest incident in Olympic history...
...back fence while her people were all in the front room, gathered around the TV watching the Olympics. It was on Atlanta that most of America's security apparatus was focused. All the more ironic, perhaps, that this fixation grew out of an attack 24 years ago in Munich, when Palestinian terrorists shocked the world by kidnapping and killing more than a dozen members of the Israeli Olympic team right in the middle of the modern, gray concrete Olympic Village. A generation later, while the Olympics have been secured, the rest of America is wide open...
...travelers are flying to Atlanta, their internal dissonance is unsettling. The bright celebration of the Olympic Games will be dimmed by a sticky coating of paranoia. We went through this atmosphere before, in the '70s, and we remember Munich...