GARAGE VIDEOTAPE IS MISSING (USA TODAY)

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arage videotape is missing
authorities
site threw
Before blast
Bruce Frankel
5A TODAY
NEW YORK - Investigators
iesday said they are puzzled
er the disappearance of a vid-
tape that may have recorded
hicles in the World Trade
triter garage before it explod-
Friday.
And authorities revealed the
S. Embassy in Algeria re-
ived two threats from the
)pular Front for the Libera-
,n of Palestine that it would
)w up a building in New York
late January.
Police Commissioner Ray-
rnd Kelly said authorities be-
ved the threat had passed
ien the second deadline -
n. 26, requiring Israel to al-
v 400 expelled Palestinians to
:urn - passed uneventfully.
Meanwhile, New York City
d the Port Authority offered
3200,000 reward for informa-
n leading to the arrest and
aviction of those responsible
Hampshire and elsewhere.
Seeking to dampen expecta,
tions of a quick resolution, Fox:
said, "No new dramatic witness;
is going to solve this case for us.
Also on Tuesday:
- Investigators pulled about
10 cars from the garage and be-
gan vacuuming them inside and;
outside and scraping their un-
dercarriages. If nothing perti
nent is found, the cars will be:
returned to their owners.
110- Bomb experts said the ex-:
plosion took place on the B-2?
level below the Vista Hotel in.
the public parking area.
-, The New York City Comp-
troller's office estimated the'
bombing could cost about $700
million in lost business during
the first week after the blast.
- For the second day in a
row, a retaining wall collapsed
near the crater - described as,
Robert Deutsch, USA TODA-y- 200 feet in ,
ANOTHER SCARE: A port authority employee tells workers at a reopened pa
rt of the World Trade through seven storires. Thedcoll---.
Center complex Tuesday to leave after a bomb threat. Workers later returned to the complex. umns previously were support-.
ed by the horizontal flooring.
culiar," said James Fox, head of A Port Authority employee had been recovered, authorities "It is in a dangerous position,
the FBI's bureau in New York. has told investigators he may said there is "no reason to raise now," said Walter Boser, head
"Incredible, isn't it?" have misplaced it, Fox said. It speculation" that` a brown van of the police bomb squad.
Videotapes were recovered may still be buried. with a stripe may have held the -_A part of the complex that
on Monday for the period from Two garage videotapes al- bomb, as reported on CNN. had reopened was evacuated
Wednesday morning to Thurs- ready reviewed were of mar- Investigators say they are because of a bomb threat. For
day morning, and from Friday ginal quality, though subject to looking at several terrorist 50 minutes, authorities
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ox said. groups, including the extremist searched the train station be-
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