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TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800

The destination was Paris, but instead a TWA Boeing 747 burst into flames at dusk, falling into the sea off the coast of New York and setting its waters ablaze. Now, even as America mourns the 230 victims, the country must discover whether this catastrophe is the latest angry assault on its soul.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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