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Page 8 • The Battalion • Monday, July 29, 1996 Bomb Continued from Page 1 phone, two blocks away, where a caller dialed 911 just minutes before the blast and said a bomb had been planted in the park. In Washington, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick said authori ties have “descriptions of people. We have information. ... We have very good leads.” But, she said, “We do not have a concrete suspect, as I would term it, right now.” Police are confident the mystery caller was a white American male with no distinguishable accent — and that points toward “home grown” terrorism. “That is one of the principal theo ries we are pursuing,” Gorelick said. Investigators also ran into some apparent dead-ends. A man in north Georgia’s Whitfield County was questioned by the FBI af ter police were tipped he made suspi cious statements about the bombing, the local sheriff said. But, said Sheriff Scott Chitwood, “there does not appear to be any connection.” In Atlanta, an unidentified man who described himself as a vendor was arrested for making what po lice said were “terroristic threats”against a hotel. Police said, however, they didn’t believe he was the park bomber. While investigators pursued leads, security officials continued tightening their net around Olympics competition sites, where guards stepped up screen ing of spectators and their bags. Officials asked fans to “leave the bags home” if at all possible, to speed up the lengthening lines at stadiums and arenas. The Georgia state government said it would dispatch by Monday morning an additional National Guard infantry battalion, the 121st from Macon, to supplement the civil ian bag-searchers, metal-detector op erators and guards at Atlanta Olympic sites. "It has been an overwhelming success as the great gathering place we envisioned. I believe it will be so again before the games are over." — BILLY PAYNE chief Olympic organizer About 4,000 guardsmen are al ready deployed on any one day here. The battalion would add “a few hun dred” to that contingent, government spokesmen said. The civilian, police and military security army on hand here totals some 30,000. The White House said Sunday about 900 FBI agents are now assigned to Olympic duty. The bombing rattled Atlanta’s nerves, leading to dozens of calls from concerned citizens about unat tended bags in public places, and sending police and ordnance-disposal experts scrambling from point to point across town. Chief organizer Payne said Sun day no further explosive devices had ■ been discovered. In an instant, Saturday’s bombing transformed Centennial Park from a jampacked crossroads of the world into an epicenter of terror. By Sun day, Payne and others held up the planned reopening of the park as a symbol of recovery from the mid- Olympics attack. “It has been an overwhelming success as the great gathering place we envisioned,” Payne said. “I be lieve it will be so again before the games are over.” Organizers would not discuss what new security measures might be instituted in the centrally situ ated park, surrounded by office buildings along with three Olympic sports venues. Payne and others sounded deter minedly upbeat about getting on with the enjoyment of the Olympics. But many here — spectators, ath letes and others — acknowledged that Saturday’s attack had changed the mood. Nicole Kelly, a vending-cart manager, said she and her friends will return to the park when it re opens. But she added, “I’m just real concerned about this killing every one’s spirit.” In the wake of the first terror at tack on the Olympics since Munich 1972, that sentiment was echoed at high levels. “Your heart goes out for the orga nizing committee,” said LeRoy Walk er, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee. “It does put a cloud over the games.” Regents Continued from Page 1 how much money will be needed hum ticket sales before financing the project. “We have to define the scope of the project, then put numbers on it,” Krumm said. The Board also approved name changes for two universities joining the System. East Texas State University-Com merce and East Texas State Univer- sity-Texarkana will join the System in September, at which time their names will change to Texas A&M University-Commerce and Texas A&M University-Texarkana. ETSU-Texarkana President Stephen R. Hensley said the name change will begin a new era for the university. “We are excited and eagerly awaiting the completion of our transition into the A&M System, and the name change is an important step in this process,” Hensley said in a press release. “We are already realizing the ben efits of the merger, with develop ments such as a joint engineering/business master’s degree with Texas A&M University in Col lege Station,” Hensley said. Movie riot brings folks together LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Time to Kill director Joel Schumacher says he had some worries be fore filming a riot scene in the small town of Canton, Miss. In the scene, hooded Klansmen march into town to disrupt a peaceful protest by blacks. The confrontation turns violent. "My first fear was that someone with an agenda of their own would slip into the action and some one would get hurt," the director said in Sunday's edition of the Los Angeles Daily News. Instead, filming the scene — with many resi dents as extras — helped bring the town together. "We had some very prominent citizens playing those roles, side by side with the people who sweep the streets and pick up the trash," said Alice Scott, who was recently elected Canton's first black mayor. "Afterward, they would drink coffee together and sit around the tables and eat." the capitalist way of life. E had ne On Sunday, Nina Khrushcheva appearedafliiH on goir Richard Nixon Library & Birthplac e to praise bollBlanta. men's contribution to history. WThe thou "Today it (the world) is much freer that itusesK i n long ] to be, borderless, and therefore quite through said. "Divided by the Cold War, Mr. ‘ jurity checl my grandfather nonetheless worked to make it ft’® _ v k’Kri icK/"Ktivyn "XI tA/rac \*//ain tbo likoftlHR® among t Khrushcheva, 32, was welc by Nixon's grandson Christope omed to the libra Cox, 1?. Former president beefs up working resume Khrushchev granddaughter meets Nixon grandson YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — The granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev made a pilgrimage to the li brary of Richard Nixon — one of her grandfather's most famous antagonists during the Cold War. When he was vice president, Nixon predicted that Khrushchev's grandchildren would live in freedom. His remarks contrasted with the Soviet premier's warning that communism would bury SPRUCE CREEK, Pa. (AP) — Jimmy Carter has been made an honorary member of the locally-based Ancient Gastronomic Order of Rat tling Reptiles — the social or ganization advocates the preservation of insects and natural resources. Carter, speaking at an initi ation meeting for the organi zation, shared hunting and fishing stories with club mem bers. He talked about trips to Pennsylvania, South Carolina, China and Japan. The club presented Carter with a bronze plaqufj embossed with a pewter rattlesnake. twas Atlanta BASEBALL Continued from Page 1 BASKETBALL Echoes of the Saturday morning bomb blast dissipated at the venues, where America’s first home Olympics in a dozen years headed into its home stretch. Dennis Rodman joined the capacity crowd at the Geor gia Dome to watch teammate Scottie Pippen and the rest of the Dream Team dismantle Croatia, the defending silver medalist, 102-71. The Dreamers will play Brazil and high-scoring Oscar Schmidt in the quarterfinals. Mitch Richmond led the United States with 16 points, while Charles Barkley had 14 points and 12 rebounds. Pippen did a defensive job on Croatian star (and Chicago teammate) Toni Kukoc, who finished with 10 points. “I was out to do my best on him from a defensive standpoint,” Pip pen said. “He had a pretty good game today — after I left.” In baseball, the bragging rights belong to Cuba — so far. The Cuban baseball team, af ter taking an early eight-run lead, held on Sunday for a 10-8 victory over the Americans in what could be a preview of the gold medal game. F*redictably, the Cubans cele brated the victory, while the Americans downplayed the loss. “I think the pressure is enor mous for coach (Jorge) Fuentes and his staff and all their players to beat the USA, where there’s not very much pressure for us,” U.S. coach Skip Bertman said. Cuba (6-0) clinched the top seed for medals-round play that begins Thursday. The United States (5-1) lost despite six homers in a meaningless game turned grudge match. the 200 final. Teammate Reynolds didn’t fare as well, pulling up lame long before the finish line in Sunday’s heats. “It’s kind of disappointing, be cause I thought we had a good chance of sweeping,” Johnson said of Reynolds’ injury. The Americans picked up a pair of track medals. Austin won gold in the high jump with a jump of 7 feet, 10 inches — the first American to win the event since Dick Fosbury, renowned for the “Fosbury Flop” that most jumpers use today, won in 1968. And hammer-thrower Lance Deal won a silver medal on his last throw for the first American hammer medal since 1956. improved menu for the diet of lefts that he force-fed David Kowah of Sierra Leone in a first- round knockout. The 178- pounder said he was sluggish in his earlier bouts because of a taste for junk food. “I was eating double cheese burgers and stuff,” he confessed. His new menu, Tarver said, in cludes “pasta and all the right stuff.” His teammate David Diaz, a 139-pounder from Chica go, was battered by European champion Oktay Urkal of Ger many in a Sunday night loss. tried to move the pair out of the main facility due to a rain delay. Outraged ticketholders booed lustily through a women’s match. When that match was over, authorities were called to keep the angry crowd from storming the gates at an adjoin ing court where Agassi was rescheduled. The match was moved back to the main court, where Agassi- Washington lost to Ellis and Wayne Ferreira of South Africa 7-5, 6-7 (2-7), 6-0. er loud a ctators r ealed to Needless | time nt ticket in and des I realize iw month be miss ique anc So last w d a free p ekend, I j As we em tal car tr y, I thoug val. But diet or d< y experiei And anyo finitely gc It was th< n-packed intment a irlwind d It wasn’t j ', the subs ns, or the ther, it wi ating When we VOLLEYBALL Beach boys Kiraly and Steffej rolled to a 12-5, 12-8 victory ovi U.S. teammates Mike Dodd anl GYMNASTICS TENNIS SOCCER TRACK Johnson breezed through the 400 qualifying and finished first in his heat. Once again, he ap peared to almost toy with the competition; the finals sire Mon day night, and he’s already made The U.S. women’s soccer team made the gold medal game with a dramatic 2-1 overtime victory over Norway. The Americans will meet China on Thursday in the first-ever women’s soccer final. They tied 0-0 in the first round. BOXING Boxing’s Tarver credited an Washington, who lost in this year’s Wimbledon finals, said playing Olympic tennis is a nice change from the pro tour. He reached the quarterfinals with a 6-7 (8-10), 6-0, 6-2 victory over Kenneth Carlsen of Denmark. “There is no money. There is no ranking on the line,” Washing ton said. “It’s just your pride for your country and your pride in wanting to beat the other guy.” But Washington’s doubles match with partner Agassi pro duced a wild scene when officials The crowds were better be haved elsewhere, as America’s volleyballers had a super Sun day and its gymnasts stumbled. Amy Chow was the only U.S. gymnast to win a medal in indi vidual events Sunday, tying Bi Wenjiing of China for the silver in the uneven bars. loannis Melissanidis won Greece’s first gymnastics medal in 100 years, grabbing the gold in floor exercise. “Before I saluted the judges, I said to myself, T’m not in the United States, I’m not in At lanta, I’m in Athens,’” Melissam dis said. “I was not loannis Melissani: dis. I was Greece.” Vitaly Scherbo of Belant failed again in his bid for record seventh gold medal, fm ishing seventh out of eight cot petitors in the floor routine. Friday, all v\ ipty and t ler flame bi I was ta istine the Later, we Mike Whitmarsh, giving th Il ^ exc ^ 1 ) :ie Americans a gold-silver sweeping souvemr the first Olympic beach volley ball tourney. Kiraly became the first volley ball player to win three Olympk gold medals. His first two ca® with the indoor team in the and ’88 games. 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