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...Atlanta bomb was not Munich 1972, which was Black September's awful masterpiece. By comparison, Atlanta was amateur night. But Atlanta came in the immediate aftermath of TWA Flight 800, and close enough in history to Oklahoma City, to leave in Americans' minds a conviction, developing like a Polaroid picture, that their nation is somehow in the process of losing whatever may be left of its old immunity. For a long time, Americans have nervously congratulated themselves that terror was an evil native to other lands. The complacent thought picked up, almost unconsciously, on the founding American premise...
...example, after the attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, the FBI cautioned other such buildings to raise their security. And since the downing of TWA Flight 800, security has been increased in airports, he says...
That leaves us with the haunting spectre of a bomb planted by terrorists. The world, and the United States for that matter, has seen the worst spate of terrorist activity in history, just in the last few years. The bombings at the World Trade Center and in Oklahoma City shocked a country used to thinking of terrorism as a Middle Eastern phenomenon which occasionally makes a detour through Europe. Now we have a replay of Pan Am 103 on our own coastline. If a bomb was responsible, we can safely say that terrorism has been imported to the United States...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole's pile of potential vice presidents is growing, and the latest to be added is Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a man who seems to fit the bill on just about all the dream qualifications: a young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has a solid conservative record on both social and fiscal issues; in 1992, he served as platform committee chair at the Republican National Convention and helped defeat an effort by moderates to soften the party's anti-abortion platform plank. But Nickles' abortion stance apparently has not deterred him from reveling...
...mind of every official or politician called upon to conduct a TWA-related press conference last week loomed the memory of the Oklahoma City bombing. The outcry against Muslims and Arabs initially kindled by that atrocity was swiftly silenced by the disclosure that the real culprits were Americans conducting a holy war of their own. And so when it came to pointing a finger at possible suspects last week, U.S. authorities recommended, in Bill Clinton's words, "keeping an open mind." Outside the public spotlight, however, it was a different story. The CIA immediately fired off secret cables...