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Most often the bomb threats don't pan out, he says, but each one has to be taken seriously...
...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, and where it will stop, nobody knows. This week, President Clinton unveiled a new package of security measures for the nation's airports intended to protect...
More than 7 1/2 years ago, my only child, my daughter Theo, was murdered by the terrorists who blew up Pan Am Flight 103. So it is with a very personal and special pain that I have watched the events following that other explosion in the sky, TWA Flight 800. In particular I suffer over what the families are going through and will go through, all of which will be made worse by the way America tries to pretend there's no such thing as tragedy. The great grief scam has begun again...
Flashback to Dec. 21, 1988. I was crawling along the corridor floor of the motel room where Pan Am had placed me after my husband and I had spent hours at J.F.K. We'd been forced to go to the airport because the Pan Am phone lines were busy all day, and the only news we were getting was from TV. By the time I was in the motel it was late at night, and I had learned the truth. My charming, vibrant daughter, my Theo who sang like an angel and had a golden future, was dead...
After a short stint at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Gwyneth rushed into film work. In the 1991 Shout, she escorted John Travolta through his fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition...