The Centennial Olympic Park reopened today at 8:00am EDT
with more than 3,000 visitors lined up when the gates opened.
ACOG Co-Chair Andrew Young, a minister who conducted the 10:00am
memorial service: "The most important message is that we have to
carry on" ("Today," NBC, 7/30). Employees spent yesterday
readying sponsor pavilions and restocking food and beverage
supplies. Visitors were to be subjected to random bag searches,
and twice as many law enforcement officers will patrol the park
(Melissa Turner, ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 7/30). Atlanta Mayor Bill
Campbell said repeatedly he and his family would be among the
first visitors when the Park reopens (Larry Copeland,
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 7/30). City leaders and Olympic officials
"clearly see the reopening of the park as a broad symbol of
renewal, not just of the Games, but as this battered city's sense
of purpose" (Kevin Sack, N.Y. TIMES, 7/30).
BOMBING HEADLINES: ABC noted a security fence was built
around the Olympic tower ("World News Tonight," 7/29). NBC's
Fred Francis reports the FBI is not discounting that "local
vendors, angry with the Olympic committee, may have a motive to
disrupt the Games" ("NBC Nightly News," 7/29).
