BOMBER PORTRAIT COMPILED : ATLANTA SITE TO REOPEN.Byline: Kevin Sack The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times As Atlantans prepared for an emotional reopening of Centennial Olympic Park Centennial Olympic Park is a 21 acre (85,000 m²) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA that is owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. today, authorities have compiled a sketch of the man they believe planted a pipe bomb that killed one woman and cast a pall over the 1996 Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. , a federal law enforcement official said Monday. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the FBI does not know the identity of the man in the composite sketch, which was drawn with the help of a number of eyewitnesses. But he said that investigators have decided not to release the sketch yet because they have received a ``very steady, productive stream of good information'' and do not want to risk creating confusion by releasing a sketch that might generate a large volume of calls, some of them misleading. The FBI also declined to release the tape of the 911 call that warned of the bomb at 12:58 a.m. Saturday (9:58 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT ). But David Tubbs, an FBI spokesman, said the caller, assumed to be a white American The term white American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American"[2] and within the United States simply "white"[3]) is an umbrella term that refers to people of European, Middle Eastern, and North African descent residing in the United States. male, had said: ``There is a bomb in Centennial Park Centennial Park can mean:
The bomb detonated at 1:25 a.m., killing Alice S. Hawthorne of Albany, Ga., and injuring 111 people. A Turkish television cameraman died of a heart attack while running to cover the explosion. At an afternoon briefing with reporters, Tubbs would say of the sketches only that investigators ``have some composites that have been drawn and I'm not willing at this time to label anyone a suspect.'' He maintained the optimism shown by investigators since the day of the bombing because of a wealth of physical evidence, videotape and eyewitnesses. ``History leads me to believe that we'll make an arrest,'' he said. ``We'll continue to work until we make an arrest.'' While hundreds of investigators followed up leads, cleanup crews prepared the park for its 8 a.m. opening today. Former Mayor Andrew Young Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. , who is both a minister and a chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. , plans to lead a 10 a.m. ceremony that will both honor the victims of the explosion and rededicate Verb 1. rededicate - dedicate anew; "They were asked to rededicate themselves to their country" dedicate, devote, commit, consecrate, give - give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a the park to the Olympic spirit. ``We're reopening a park but we're also rekindling or restoring the faith in the Olympic dream and the American dream,'' Young said. ``The truth is that people are ready. Nothing has brought this city together like this attack.'' Bob Brennan, a spokesman for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, said ``We are determined to defy cowardice.'' Late Sunday, police opened up several streets surrounding the park for the first time since the blast, allowing passers-by to view the damage they had been watching all weekend on television. Thousands strolled down Techwood Drive on Monday, snapping photographs of the shredded canvas siding of the sound-and-light tower that took the brunt of the explosion. Even as investigators focused on Saturday's explosion, a rash of bomb scares continued around the city, disrupting business, closing already congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. streets and stretching thin the city's police force. Late Monday, police temporarily evacuated a building that houses many of the offices of Atlanta's Olympic organizing committee. Since the bomb exploded, police have sent teams to assess 48 bomb scares, Tubbs said. There have been 151 such incidents in Atlanta since July 1, he said. The Games began July 19 and will end Sunday. ``There are a lot of copycats out there who are finding great fun in disrupting the Games in any way they can,'' Brennan said. |
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