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Four decades after it exploded, tourism on the islands overheated, leaving in its ashes a forest of massive, block-booked hotels and beach-hugging villa communities with few discernible ties to Spain—places lined with German bier halls, English fish ‘n’ chips joints, and low-rent bars and discos.
Naturally, the agency's size and budget exploded (see David Plotz's explanation in "Strange Bedfellow").
Nevertheless, those firefighters not standing near windows facing south had no way of knowing that the SouthTower had collapsed; many surmised that a bomb had exploded, or that the North Tower had suffered a partial collapse on its upper floors.
The official guests had scarcely left Bali when Gunung Agung exploded in what was the most violent eruption the island had seen in centuries.
The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times lead with new terror in Northern Ireland: a car bomb exploded Saturday in a crowded shopping area in Omagh, a town west of Belfast, killing at least 28 people and injuring hundreds more.