Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Centennial Olympic Park was supposed to be the village green of the Games, a global common ground where everyone could congregate and share the bonds symbolized by five interwoven rings. Last week our minds needed such a venue. There was a lot of magic and malice we had to reconcile: the triumphs of will and spirit in Atlanta, the gruesome carnage and fear that fell from Flight 800 over Long Island...
...then, with a soul-shattering pop, Olympic Park was where the two emotions collided...
...about 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, state and local authorities evacuated half of John F. Kennedy Park to examine a knapsack that witnesses said had been dropped off by a man who then ran out of the park...
...quick reactions to these incidents by local authorities are no surprise. According to Cambridge Detective Chuck Mottola, local authorities are being especially cautious after the bombing in Centennial Olympic Park and the suspected terrorist involvement in the crash of TWA Flight...
...previous job and searching his former residence. Piedmont College officials were questioned after contacting the agency. Jewell, a former public safety officer on the campus, 80 miles northeast of Atlanta, allegedly told the college security chief upon quitting to take the job at the AT&T pavilion in Centennial Park that he would be a hero at the Olympic Games and that if "anything happens," he hoped to be at the center of the action. Testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee, FBI Director Lewis Freeh defended the heated investigation of a suspect who has yet to be charged: "Nobody rushes...