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fore blast		lo Investi
gators pulled about
10 cars from the garage and be-
	6,	g them inside and*
gan vacuumin
i Bruce Frankel		outside and scraping their un-
3A TODAY		
dercarriages. If nothing perti-.'
		nent is found, the cars will be:
NEW YORK - Investigators		returned to their owners.
iesday said they are puzzled		
10, Bomb experts said the ex-,
er the disappearance of a vid-		
plosion took place on the B-2,
,tape that may have recorded		
level below the Vista Hotel in.
hicles in the World Trade		
the public parking area.
tnter garage before it expIod		
10, The New York City Comp-
Friday.		troller's office estimated the'
And authorities revealed the		
bombing could cost about $700
S. Embassy in Algeria re-		Million in lost business during
ived two threats from the		
the first week after the blast.
1pular Front for the Libera-		
10- For the second day in a@
n. of Palestine that it would		
a retaining wall collapsed
row,
)w up a building in New York	k
.	near the crater - described as,
late January.	B
y Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY	200 feet in diameter, extending,
Police Commissioner Ray-	ANOTHER SCARE: A port authority employee tells workers at a reopened part of the Word Trade	through seven stories. The col-.
)nd Kelly said authorities be-	Center complex Tuesday to leave after a bomb threat. Workers later retumed to the complex.	umns previously were su	pport-.
ved the threat had passed		0 by the horizontal floori	ng.
ien the second deadline -	culiar," said James Foy, head of A Port Authority employee had been recovered, authorities	; "It is in a dangerous position,
rL 26, requiring Israel to al-	the FBI's bureau in New York. has told investigators he may said there is "no reason to raise	now," said Walter Boser, head
v 400 expelled Palestinians to	"Incredible, isn't it?" have misplaced it, Fox said. It speculation" that ' a brown van	of the police bomb squad.
@urn - passed uneventfully.	Videotapes were recovered may still be buried. with a stripe may have held the	1PA part of the complex that
Meanwhile, New York City	on Monday for the period from Two garage videotapes al- bomb, as reported on CNN.	had reopened was evacuated
d the Port Authority offered	Wednesday morning to Thurs- ready reviewed were of mar- Investigators say they are	because of a bomb threat. For
'
3200,000 reward for informa-	day morning, and from Friday ginal quality, though subject to looking at several terrorist	50
minutes, authorities
n leading to the arrest and	morning to Saturday moring. enhancement, Fox said. groups, including the extremist	searched the train station be-
nviction of those responsible	Missing*. a sequence video- Asked what he would tell the Hamas which is opposed to	neath the center while fright-
thp bombing,	
tape for the period from Thurs- employee, Fox said, "Let's try Middle East peace talks.	
ened workers left the area. A
guthorities cautioned against	day at 8 ami. to Friday at 8 am., to find id ... Now!" The investigation is spread-	suspicious package later' w
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Aing too much of the missing	of the B-2 garage level - the While acknowledging pieces ing as license plates are tracked	found to contain building mat
,
:10": "You could call it pe-	"seaf'of the massive explosion. of brown metal from a vehicle from Michigan, Illinoi New
	law-