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HALTING RECOVERY where slowed traffic to a crawl. At one point, law enforcement officials engaged in a manhunt that briefly With to Canal Street by today, and how engineering consultants were testing the structural Integrity of I The day’s lesson plans for many teachers included a careful discus­ sion of this week’s terrorist attack on shut off access to the entire borough hpwer Manhattan’s infrastructure. Itheir students’ city. ^d the mayor, who has sought out { But the explicit message to remain of Staten Island. g^evance counselors for advice on calm, coupled with the implicit re- New Scares and Transit The sporadic service of mass tran­ sit and the partial closings of several jiow to address city residents, urged mlnder to buck up in keeping with subway lines caused particular frus­ pie city’s fabled toughness, some­ Snags Hamper City’s tration and fear. Throughout the day, j^[.“Do not overreact,” he advised at a pews conference yesterday after- times seemed to fall short of helping people to meet the complexities of an officials limited subway service out (apon at which he addressed the (extraordinarily difficult day. Return to Normal of concern that the rumble of trains might upset the buildings and tun­ roughly 90 bomb threats or reports j In Midtown, a Roman Catholic of suspicious circumstances that po­ Puerto Rican man wearing a black- nels of Lower Manhattan made frag­ nce handled during the day. “People ile by Tuesday’s devastation. (and-white kaffiyeh — a cotton head By DAN BARRY flave to understand we are living Covering often worn by Arabs — was ( All the while, telltale plumes of mth a great deal of faith here. Re­ pushed against a wall and hand- On the third day, New York tried to smoke rose from the south, marking main cairn.” move toward some semblance of where the terrorist attack had killed jcuffed by police officers because ‘'(rhe great majority of those work­ someone told them that he had a normality, but too often It seemed to thousands of people and destroyed ing and living in New York yesterday the World Trade Center, whose twin •bomb; he did not fail. Frazzled police officers found did just that. themselves responding to dozens of towers once symbolized internation­ ( In the West Village, a woman an­ Customers quietly ate omelets at a swered her ringing cell phone, only to false bomb threats, mass transit offi­ al commerce. A five-square-mile Burger Heaven In Midtown, while stretch of the Manhattan island re­ hear an AT&T representative ask cials worked to keep a fractured images from Tuesday’s mayhem ap­ mained restricted, as soldiers and (whether she was all right The repre­ system up and running, and people peared on televisions propped above sentative explained that the compa­ everywhere struggled to shake the police officers stood sentry at blue the counter. Office workers scurried barricades along 14th Street. ny was monitoring downtown phone paralysis of fear. (through Times Square with their (signals to see if it could detect signs In a lunchtime span of 90 minutes, The workday had only begun when (morning coffees in hand, while the (of life in the wreckage. bomb scares in a half-dozen public Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani provided electronic news zipper of 1 Times and private buildings — Grand Cen­ statistics that began to give some Square reflected worldwide talk of tral Terminal, Macy's and La Guar­ Vague dimension to an American war. Theater owners announced that dia Airport among them — sent thou­ atrocity: 4,763 people reported miss­ Broadway was open again for busi­ sands of panicked people fleeing into ing, 184 bodies or body parts recov­ ness. ered, 6,000 tons of rubble removed, the streets. All three New York-area airports were shut down — again — in the late afternoon by federal au­ and 30,000 body bags available. ,Mr. Giuliani continued to talk with I Most of the city’s public, private and parochial schools reopened after a day’s hiatus. NiVTimes thorities who arrested one person and detained a handful of others who steely confidence about the continu­ ing reclamation project now known J Hundreds of thousands of public school children were in attendance. 2' IM 01