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That left those following the crime right back where they started. For the 90-agent, Oklahoma City-size FBI contingent assigned to the case, that meant, amid the sand, saguaros and 114-degree heat of the Arizona desert, examining every piece of debris as huge cranes lifted the wreckage, and interviewing every possible witness. The agents projected a certain assurance. "I don't know whether the motive is a disgruntled employee or an act of terrorism--but we will find out," said Robert Bryant, the FBI's top counterterrorism officer. High bureau officials estimated that the case could be wrapped...
...town that didn't was Navarre Beach, Florida, a tourist village of about 3,000, 20 miles east of Pensacola. Where once pristine 25-ft. dunes rose, there is now a featureless expanse of sand that has swallowed up living rooms, swimming pools, roads and tractor trailers. Seventy-five percent of Navarre Beach's homes were destroyed, swamped by the 15-ft. tidal surge or crushed by the battering of 30-ft. waves. Some structures were reduced to piles of indistinguishable rubble; others simply disappeared, leaving only stubby supports to show where a house once stood. Several homes were lifted...
...relationship between justice and money. If Simpson were middle-class or merely rich, good defense lawyers confronting the mass of scientific evidence and police testimony against him would have pressed for a plea bargain. Although the Simpson trial is to trials like Mount Everest is to a child's sand castle, unrealistic defendants may not appreciate that their court-appointed or bargain-basement lawyers lack both the talent of a Johnnie Cochran and the investigative resources of an O.J. Simpson. An acquittal in the Simpson case will give other defendants false hopes that their cases can be beat as well...
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...reports from Navarre Beach, a barrier island about 20 miles east of Pensacola in the area that bore the full force of Hurricane Opal. "There are chunks of asphalt everywhere, a car 200 yards offshore, huge tower cranes twisted like toys, upside-down semi rigs just lying in the sand. Whole buildings are either destroyed and atomized into chunks no bigger than a yard across. In one case, a house had been taken up and thrown 50 yards into the air." Some residents are now returning to the remains of their homes after Opal smashed through, killing 18 people...