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SA TODAY		
dercarriages. If nothing	
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		nent is found, the cars wi	ll be,
NEW YORK - Investigators		returned to their owners.
jesday said they are puzzled		
10. Bomb experts said the ex-,'
'er the disappearance of a vid-	OMNI	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.
mter garage before it explod-		llo@, The New York City Comp@
I 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 blasL
vular Front for the Libera-
'		10- For the second day in a'
of Palestine that it would
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row, a retaining wall collapsed
n New York
3W up a building i		near the crater - described as'
late January.	By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY	200 feet in diameter, extending
Police Commissioner Ray-	ANOTHER SCARE: A port authoft employee tells workers at a reopened part of the World Trade	through seven stories. The col-.
ond Kelly said authorities be-	Center complex Tuesday to leave after a bomb threat. Workers later returned to the complex.	umns previously were support-
Ved the threat had passed		ed by the horizontal flooring.
ien the second deadline -	culiar," said James Fox, head of A Port Authority employee had been recovered, authorities	I "It is in a dangerous position
n. 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,
N 400 expelled Palestinians to	"Incredible, isn't it?" have misplaced it, Fox said. It speculation" that' a brown van	of the police bomb squad.
cum - passed uneventfully.	Videotapes were recovered may still be buried. with a stripe may have held the	lo-,A 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-.
fthe bombing.
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th	tape for the period from Thurs- employee, Fox said, "Let's try Middle East peace talks.
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gtoo much of the missing	of the B-2 garage level - the While acknowledging pieces ing as license plates are tracked	found to contain building ma
"You could call it pe-	"seat" of the massive explosion. of brown metal from a vehicle from Michigan, Illinois, New	rial&