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...hoopla in the last two weeks about the crash of TWA Flight 800 and the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta, New Yorkers for the most part have not noticed a significant battle that may substantially affect the future of New York City public schools...
...aircraft hit it in midair. It was a terrorist bomb. Nearly everyone suspects that first and strongest, and the more officials say not to speculate about it, the more one speculates. Within a few hours, when it is clear that none of the 200-plus people who were on TWA Flight 800 are going to be found alive, the mood of the town is laden with sorrow. East Moriches (established early 1700s, population a little more than 4,000) is about to become America...
...meantime, CNN got more information faster from the Coast Guard, had telephone accounts from eyewitnesses earlier (courtesy of two of its New York TV affiliates), and brought a former National Transportation Safety Board official, Vernon Grose, into the studio for some valuable perspective. CNN showed a tape of TWA's first press conference at 11:30 p.m. EST; MSNBC didn't get to it until an hour later. Anchor Williams, meanwhile, was forced to pause at regular intervals, compose himself for the camera and start all over again--to provide updates for NBC affiliates picking up MSNBC's feed...
...work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on pbs, write and perform two one-man off-Broadway shows and contribute essays to such publications as the New York Times and the New Republic. He has also written a forthcoming memoir of Harvard in the 1960s. For his report on the TWA crash, Rosenblatt went to the town near the site, only 10 miles from his summer home. "I first learned of the disaster when an explosion shook our house," he says. "After that, it was all reporting in sorrow...
...doubts and wiring up the excitement. Oh, traffic was often a mess, and the sidewalks became a flea market, but Atlanta seemed genuinely happy and gracious about welcoming the world. The City Too Busy to Hate was also too busy to wring its hands over the horrific tragedy of TWA Flight 800. The security presence was so large to begin with, some 30,000 strong, that added measures were hardly noticed. The safety concern manifested itself mainly as an added line of questioning at press conferences. Worries about the heat were diminished by bearable (92û) temperatures, and the threat...